"If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial."
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"... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know."
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"I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come."
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"Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places."
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"I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light."
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"Where your will is ready, your feet are light."
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"True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together."
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"Armour is light at table."
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"If there is a God, I want to see Him, not only His energy or His light, but Him."
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"Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God."
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"You try to walk in the light."
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"He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light."
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"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."
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"So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade."
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"And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever."
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"...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give."
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"To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges in playing and I've grown frustrated at times... But because I like to play the piano, I never thought of giving up. I was always able to overcome difficulties in pianistic techniques. Yes, there might be some 'traffic lights', but they all turned 'green'."
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"The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows."
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"I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing."
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"It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches."
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