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The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us.

The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We’re a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us.
– Liu Cixin

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  3. Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing. – Liu Cixin
  4. Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is. – Cixin Liu
  5. Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  6. A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest. – Ursula K Le Guin
  7. She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit up even my darkest days. – J Sterling
  8. For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  9. This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act. – Erika Johansen
  10. God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace. – Ravi Zacharias
  11. You tug and strain like a young horse when it’s first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings. – Sigrid Undset
  12. There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars. – Ken Liu
  13. That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, … – Lemony Snicket
  14. A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  15. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. – Lawrence Durrell
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  17. Her ghost is still orbiting Earth inside the tiny dim lit room. Orbiting endlessly like an invisible moon circling our beautiful blue planet. – Gayendra Abeywardane
  18. The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness – Lazarus Takawira
  19. I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. …you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave… – John Geddes
  21. Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently. – Richie Norton
  22. Forest is forest. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  23. It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps… – Tanith Lee
  24. Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  25. I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing. – Forest Whitaker
  26. The forest, like a casino, always wins. That’s why you should never gamble, or enter the forest. And above all, never underestimate Schmidty. – Gitty Daneshvari
  27. Tall and built like a dense forest, Clint’s broad shoulders made a girl want to learn how to scale trees. Except me. I wanted to start a forest fire. – JC McKenzie
  28. I have a cottage in a dense forest and the animals of the forest are members of my cottage. – Tanmaya Guru
  29. The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen. – Salman Rushdie
  30. As life begins with a tiny little thing, success begins with tiny little steps forward. – Debasish Mridha
  31. Just a tiny little pain,Three days of heavy rain,Three days of sunlight,Everything will be alright,Just a tiny little pain. – Antonia Michaelis
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  33. Always believe you can change the world -“ even if it’s only a tiny bit, because every tiny bit needed someone who changed it. – Caitlin Moran
  34. Let the darkness transform into rockacross the wilderness of my memory – Xiaobo Liu
  35. Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong – James Branch Cabell
  36. A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  37. the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string – Virginia Woolf
  38. Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb. – Jazz Feylynn
  39. Its oke to be sad. I’ve been trained to love my darkness – Lady Gaga
  40. This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness… soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little. – Ansem

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