"Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?"
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"I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions."
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"I'm more of an oldies guy. I'll say this - Michael Jackson, best entertainer of all time. Luther Vandross, best male singer of all time. Whitney Houston, best female singer of all time...and when Teddy Pendergrass says turn off the lights, turn 'em off. That's what I got for you."
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"How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?"
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"There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in their form - But their light merges into each other."
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"You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky."
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"The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light."
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"Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --"
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"If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship."
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"We're all worth the same When we turn off the light."
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"I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day."
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"Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light."
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"[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string."
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"We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights."
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"Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light."
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"The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light."
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"I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!"
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"A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt."
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"The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky."
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"The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas."
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