Don't let dark thoughts keep rolling in about ruined careers as life is about rolling with the punches and coming out the other side.
And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!
When you let dark energy from bad company keep you, it will also harm your partner.
After Craig, I go to sleep smiling instead of letting dark thoughts roil my brain and I also shut down malevolent, self-blaming reviews of my day.
The sculptor, who once seemed to float above the mire and mess of the YBAs, producing dreamily beautiful works such as the enormous curved mirror of Cloudgate, or the precise, symmetrical cubes of pure primary colour in his pigment works, is now, in his mid-50s, letting darker parts of what he always refers to as his "psychobiography" spill forth.
Edward II, whose life ends before it is fully ripe, says goodbye with a gloomy prayer: "Who is dark, let him stay dark, Who is unclean, let him stay unclean.
Biking in the snow seemed reasonable, but at night? "If you let the dark stop you up here," said Peter, "you'd never get out in the winter," he said, noting that there's no daylight before or after working hours.
However, his moral code often grew more than murky as deaths of loved ones at his expense continued to tally while he continued to let his "dark passenger" dominate his actions and cloud his judgment.
"Let the dark come in," a friend tells him late in the book, adding, "What's the point in trying to stop it?" Lewis has an answer, "Because I'd rather let the light in, my friend".
By all means, watch Top Hat, gawp at the Chrysler Building, imagine yourself sipping cocktails aboard an ocean liner – let the dark and disturbing interwar era become the stuff of ritzy cinematic dreams.
Since the beginning of the season, he has let his dark black hair grow since the beginning of the season into a curly mane that often invades his face.
