"Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light."
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"Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]"
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"If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light."
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"In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness."
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"I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good."
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"[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did"
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"The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow."
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"Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form...without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death...the truth is the light and light is the truth."
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"A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth."
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"We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence."
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"Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed."
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"No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness."
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"In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it."
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"The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream."
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"A light here required a shadow there."
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"America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world."
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"Light is time thinking about itself."
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"Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget."
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"Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it."
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"Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming."
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