As dark misery settles down on us, and our refuges of lies fall in pieces one after one, the hearts of men, now at last serious, will turn to refuges of truth. The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

Past and Present, Book 4, ch. 8 “The Didactic” (1843)
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