“In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”
George Lucas (1944) American film producer
“It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
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