"The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night."
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"When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility."
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"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
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"The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart."
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"Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light."
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"Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright."
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"Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn."
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"Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom."
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"It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come."
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"More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building."
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"The light of faith makes us see what we believe."
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"If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light."
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"If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords."
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"They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!"
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"Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for."
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"Doubt everything. Find your own light."
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"This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light."
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"I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it."
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"The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre."
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"See the Light in Others, and Treat Them as if That is All you See."
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