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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
Sunshine

"I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!"

Men Heart Sunshine
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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Sunshine

"Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies."

Doors Sunshine Thinking About You
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
Sunshine

"I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine."

Night Sunshine Bipolar
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Woodrow Wilson Politician
Sunshine

"Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light..."

Dream Sunshine Bad Day
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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
Sunshine

"He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle."

Animal Rain Sunshine
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Sunshine

"It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us."

Inspirational Reflection Sunshine
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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
Sunshine

"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"

Spring Summer Sunshine
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Rene Descartes Philosopher, Mathematician
Sunshine

"Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates."

Diversity Sunshine Experience
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Thomas A. Edison Inventor
Sunshine

"When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property."

Energy Wind Sunshine
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Sunshine

"For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk."

Children Regret Sunshine
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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
Sunshine

"A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine."

Cat Wine Sunshine
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Sunshine

"I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like... Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshine pouring down upon them out of a dazzling June sky. It thrilled me like music."

Sky Sunshine Yellow
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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
Sunshine

"The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable."

Eye Sunshine Entering
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Robert Browning Poet, Playwright
Sunshine

"If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent."

Heart Relationship Sunshine
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Sunshine

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Flower Sunshine Grandchildren
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