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All life is a struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur

All life is a struggle in the dark.

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