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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

Adrienne Rich
Change, Light, People
Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To see the light too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.