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• In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.

  Laurens van der Post

  Children, Believe, Heart

  Laurens Van Der Post (2013). “Feather Fall: An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post”, p.35, Random House

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• One wonders why Christians today get off so easily. Is it because unchristian Americans are that much better than unchristian Romans, or is our light so dim that the tormentor can't see it? What are the things we do that are worth persecuting?

  Clarence Jordan

  Christian, Today, Wonder

  Clarence Jordan (2003). “Essential Writings”

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• Can the darkness condemn the light?

  El Greco

  Darkness

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• We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Lasts, Lit

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Doors, Architecture

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• I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Moving, America

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

  Christopher Columbus

  Sea, History, Curiosity

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• A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Real, Long

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• Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

  Thomas Merton

  Death, Wisdom, Heart

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

  Howard Nemerov

  Travel, Science, Journey

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov”, p.345, University of Chicago Press

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• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Stars, Eye

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

  Rajneesh

  Summer, Spiritual, Sweet

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• Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Stars, Reflection, Humanity

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• We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

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  Ram Dass

  Life, Grace, Suffering

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• Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it

  Shakti Gawain

  Real, Ignorance, Fighting

  Shakti Gawain (2016). “Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life”, p.45, New World Library

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• Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

  Arthur Eddington

  Nature, Intellectual, Purpose

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Communication, Winter

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

  Antonio Porchia

  Giving, Sun, Ifs

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

  Ruth Carter Stapleton

  Christmas, Xmas, Giving

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• Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

  Galileo Galilei

  Long, Silence, Vision

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• My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Halloween, Eye, Yellow

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• The substance of painting is light.

  Andre Derain

  Substance, Painting

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• I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.

  Louis Daguerre

  Flight, Arrested

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• At last there is light at the end of the tunnel.

  Joseph Alsop

  Tunnels, Lasts, Ends

  Syndicated newspaper column, 13 Sept. 1965 See Dickson 1; John Kennedy 29; Navarre 1

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• Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?

  George Carlin

  Dark

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