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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ...

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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each ...

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Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound.

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Samuel BeckettTexts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bo...

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Samuel R. DelanyThe Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred...

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In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Sp...

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Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark...

You're a Dark One," said Anton. "All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery.""All I do i...

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The great hall was shimmering in light, sun streaming from the open windows, and ablaze with colour,...

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The baby batScreamed out in fright,'Turn on the dark,I'm afraid of the light.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inn...

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And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have...

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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, s...

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I shall now call myself;I shall now call.In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,I shall love mysel...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

Beyond speech and mind,Into the river of ever-effulgent LightMy heart dives.Today thousands of doors...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free a...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had to,...

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I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the...

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All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs...

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The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was...

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Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of lig...

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Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so o...

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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, d...

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Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar.

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting ...

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b...

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LightLightThe visible reminder of Invisible Light.

Time and the bell have buried the day,The black cloud carries the sun away.Will the sunflower turn t...

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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. O Greater Light, we praise Thee for...

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Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

What's the light of Heaven look like on earth? Like sunlight streaming through clouds in the tackies...

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Tad WilliamsThe Dirty Streets of Heaven

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relati...

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It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not whe...

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So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light,Among the creatures of l...

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I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret thin...

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Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a cand...

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These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chas...

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Practically anything can go faster than Disc light, which is lazy and tame, unlike ordinary light. T...

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it f...

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If Vorbis was right, and there was a kind of light that made darkness visible, then down there was i...

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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peeri...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

From around the corner's edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an omino...

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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

If you want to give a light to others, you have to glow yourself.

Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threaten...

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If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can infl...

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Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination t...

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Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the s...

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Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

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Ursula K. Le GuinA Wizard of Earthsea

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage....

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You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they ...

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It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the othe...

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I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,G...

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To love beauty is to see light.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...

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Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise o...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness e...

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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Lo...

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How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin...

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

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The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.

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Wallace StevensThe Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

A tree forms itself in answerto its place and the light.Explain it how you will, the onlything expla...

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In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Somet...

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You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next day, 'Today...

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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...

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Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of...

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Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small cre...

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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of n...

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William BradfordBradford: Of Plymouth Plantation

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of n...

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William BradfordBradford: Of Plymouth Plantation

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of n...

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Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of n...

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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alon...

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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

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