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Photographs of the dark side of Edinburgh. Usually one a day. www.darkedinburgh.co.uk

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darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · Nov 12

Just setup cross-posting so a little test and I thought why not make that a reminder that there is an award winning Dark Edinburgh book!

https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/dark-edinburgh/

Cover of Dark Edinburgh book, available from Obverse Books.

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darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 5h

"We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…"
- Hans Fallada, Alone in Berlin

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 1d

"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering."
- Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 2d

"Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways."
- Oscar Wilde

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 4d

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 5d

'He breakfasted heartily, and caring little, as he said, for the beauties of the Eternal City, ordered post-horses at noon."
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 6d

"Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of those wild waters."
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

A lone figure walks up a foggy High Street

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darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 7d

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

A night scene of traffic on Lothian Road

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 8d

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 9d

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Someone contemplating Princes St gardens

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 11d

"The brass handles of the chest of drawers were as golden knockers; and the carved bedposts seemed to have some kinship with the magnificent pillars of Solomon's temple."
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 14d

"Exit, pursued by a bear."
- A Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 15d

"There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'."
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Victoria Terrace at blue hour with a light shining like a star

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 16d

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
- John Steinbeck

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 17d

"It was now broad day, and she started again, emerging cautiously upon the highway."
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 19d

"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 20d

"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities."
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 22d

"Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction."
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 23d

"All these trivial incidents belonged to the routine of life, and the return of morning."
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 24d

"We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves."
- Andy Goldsworthy

In the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy

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darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 25d

“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 26d

"I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality."
- Frida Kahlo

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 27d

“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going."
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · 28d

"I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Looking up Cockburn Street under a black sky

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none."
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

darkedinburgh @darkedinburgh.bsky.social · Sep 7

"William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild, and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar in order to support his mistresses and to fund a gambling addiction."