"Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light."
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"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
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"This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity."
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"You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark."
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"You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret."
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"Love is not consolation, it is light."
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"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."
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"You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment."
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"The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape."
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"It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold."
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"Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light."
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"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
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"The longing for light is the longing for consciousness."
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"Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence."
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"With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art."
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"They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released."
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"the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead."
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"I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light."
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"Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to the English, "Have sweet dreams," the French implied that the sleeper was not a passive spectator, a captive audience, but had some control over and must accept some responsiblity for his or her dreaming. Moreover, a "fine" dream had much wider connotations than a "sweet" one."
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"The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense."
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