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"Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark."
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"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine."
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"We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
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"And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle."
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"The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light."
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"And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chairs. The waves rise, their crests curl; look at the lights on the mastheads. They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and then the creepers."
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"The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking."
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"Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper."
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"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul."
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"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will."
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"I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance."
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"It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar."
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"We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin."
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"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."
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"Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it"
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"One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me."
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"When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you."
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"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
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"One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with."
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