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In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of ru...

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In the soul where Christ savingly is, there He lives. He not only lives without it, so as violently ...

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One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. T...

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Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receiv...

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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkn...

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Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre...

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By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago;Yet still the silver corpse must spinAnd wit...

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Julian HuxleyThe Captive Shrew and other poems of a Biologist

Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulge...

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor...

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The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself thr...

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the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty...

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Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly ...

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Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof,...

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Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path...

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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a p...

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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I want to light the lights of patriotism.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. Af...

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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inn...

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Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly percep...

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Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That'...

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There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBurst...

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Prayer Against the DarknessShekhinaPray for us now bound with scripture and shielded with shawlArmed...

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The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to ...

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The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the finger...

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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted p...

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Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is...

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We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid,...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult...

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Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...

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From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our b...

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We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong the...

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Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from d...

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There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky cloud...

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Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the ...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the univers...

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Each one prays to God according to his own light.

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of i...

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From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive: Part 2

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we tu...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are l...

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering i...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing i...

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ca...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to co...

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Pas...

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On the beach, at dawn:Four small stones clearlyHugging each other.How many kinds of loveMight there ...

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Mary OliverSwan: Poems and Prose Poems

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but r...

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The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has on...

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Max PlanckScientific Autobiography and Other Papers

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, l...

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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there,...

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In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and ...

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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac...

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selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.

… remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light stre...

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Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even thou...

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I live and love in God's peculiar light.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love wo...

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The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster t...

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Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s t...

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is Ame...

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Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, em...

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From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire o...

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...

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When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as th...

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Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simp...

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I'll bet he light in the window.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable app...

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I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smel...

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At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the st...

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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the nig...

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And this I know whether the one True Light Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite One flash of ...

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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else onc...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,what secret k...

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Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the ho...

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Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowe...

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I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window

There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple so...

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