“I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.”
Daphnaida, v. 407; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“I remember my loves, my conversation, my friendships. I remember it all, see it all, see them all.”
The Clerk's Vision (1949)
Context: I remember my loves, my conversation, my friendships. I remember it all, see it all, see them all. With melancholy, but without nostalgia. And above all, without hope. I know that it is immortal, and that, if we are anything, we are the hope of something. For me, expectation has spent itself. I quit the nevertheless, the even, the in spite of everything, the moratoriums, the excuses and forgiving. I know the mechanism of the trap of morality and the drowsiness of certain words. I have lost faith in all those constructions of stone, ideas, ciphers. I quit. I no longer defend this broken tower. And, in silence, I await the event.

The Third Revelation, Chapter 11
Context: All this shewed He full blissfully, signifying thus: See! I am God: See! I am in all thing: See! I do all thing: See! I lift never mine hands off my works, nor ever shall, without end: See! I lead all thing to the end I ordained it to from without beginning, by the same Might, Wisdom and Love whereby I made it. How should any thing be amiss?
Thus mightily, wisely, and lovingly was the soul examined in this Vision. Then saw I soothly that me behoved, of need, to assent, with great reverence enjoying in God.

“This is the battle between day and night… I see black light.”
C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit... Je vois de la lumière noire.
Last words (1885-05-22); quoted in Olympio, ou la vie de Victor Hugo by André Maurois (1954)
"They Are All Gone," st. 3.
Silex Scintillans (1655)

“I can see the light of day
Even through the rainy haze.”
Dark White Girl
Resurrection (2014)

Near the Brink: Observations of a Nonagenarian (1952). p. 17.

Source: The Beach (1941), Chapter 3, p. 20