"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."
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"Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light."
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"I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?"
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"The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act."
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"The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by."
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"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness."
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"Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in."
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"I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light."
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"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
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"There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you hoist up your camera by the time you've dialed in your settings. There are eye blink moments where you're like "Aaahhhh, I wish," but those are too many to catalogue. Nothing really sticks out."
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"The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!"
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"A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me."
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"Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them."
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"Even coal shimmers in the light"
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"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."
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"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."
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"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."
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"The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct"
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"By the light of your stars, heal me."
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"On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound."
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