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Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

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