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Quotation from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
“Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.”
King Solomon's Mines, Chapter V, Our March into the Desert (Project Gutenberg text (1907 Cassell edition))
Umbopa's meditation on life and death the night before the desert crossing, after which he hints that he too seeks a brother over the mountains.
Citation: "Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere." — H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Chapter V, Our March into the Desert (Project Gutenberg text (1907 Cassell edition)). (id king-solomons-mines-q3)
Portrait: Henry Rider Haggard 03, Bain News Service, Public domain.
