"We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities."
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"Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door."
"Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts."
"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
"When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see."
"One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman."
"Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired."
"English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next."
"He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving."
"In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints."
"You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear."
"Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities."
"A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent."
"The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life."
"I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee."
"The forehead of every work must shine from afar."
"Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light."
"for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him."
"From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest."
"God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter""