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• Love and ego cannot go together. Knowledge and ego go together perfectly well, but love and ego cannot go together, not at all. They cannot keep company. They are like darkness and light: if light is there darkness cannot be. Darkness can only be if light is not there. If love is not there the ego can be; if love is there the ego cannot be. And vice versa, if ego is dropped, love arrives from all the directions. It simply starts pouring in you from everywhere.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Light, Ego

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  Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hope, Light, Darkness

  "The Priest". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2010.

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• To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

  Denis Diderot

  Greatness, Men, Light

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

  John Hurt

  Character, Light, Darkness

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• Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Light, Hot And Cold

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

  Paule Marshall

  Children, Past, Light

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.97, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• To heal the ancient battle between darkness and light, we may find that it's less about defeating one or the other, and more about choosing our relationship to both.

  Gregg Braden

  Light, Darkness, Battle

  FaceBook post by Gregg Braden from Oct 22, 2012

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• Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

  Confucius

  Strong, Light, Opposites

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• I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Light, Darkness

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Light, Darkness

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.

  Jessa Gamble

  Animal, Light, Cells

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• Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

  Jean Vanier

  Hate, Light, Darkness

  Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.29, Paulist Press

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• Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Light, Darkness

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

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• Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.

  Maren Elwood

  Light, Long, Giving

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• I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

  Federico Fellini

  Light, Darkness, Cinema

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• I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Light, Darkness

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• Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sex, Children, Love Is

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings.

  Vittorio Storaro

  Writing, Vocabulary, Light

  By Despina Mouzaki, www.filmfestival.gr.

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• For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Light, Bird

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• Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Light, Dancing, Darkness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.295, Macmillan

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• It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Real

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.100, Macmillan

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• The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness

  Brandon Mull

  Light, Swings, Darkness

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• The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Light, Darkness, Balance

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.236, A&C Black

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• ...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

  Neal Shusterman

  Moving, Light, Long

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a sign of Gryffindor the next; and the Slytherins will be enabled to believe what they wish, while the Gryffindors argue themselves into supporting you as well. So long as there is uncertainty, people can believe whatever seems to be to their own advantage. And so long as you appear strong, so long as you appear to be winning, their instincts will tell them that their advantage lies with you. Walk always in the shadow, and light and darkness both will follow.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Strong, Lying, Believe

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