Elizabeth Taylor
Actress
"I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it."
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Radiance
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Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly."
Simone Weil
Philosopher, Activist
"Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting."
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"[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)"
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"The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her."
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"Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object."
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"A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth."
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"Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance."
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"What is life without the radiance of love?"
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"Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal."
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"Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things."
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"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her."
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"O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core."
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"The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce."
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"Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally."
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"It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance."
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