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• Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Dark, Way

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• Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

  Hortense Calisher

  Travel, Facts, Travel Light

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• You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.

  Vimala Thakar

  Pain, Love Is, Attachment

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• There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches noon. Under this spell one's mind is braced, one's spirit recreated; one is ready for any adventure, even if it only be the doing of the next distasteful task light-heartedly.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Beautiful, Encouragement, Morning

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• the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, Memories, Wine

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• The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

  Alice Meynell

  Clouds, Shining, Rays

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com

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• I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

  Alice Meynell

  Sound, Bishops, Boots

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, eBookIt.com

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• the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

  Margaret Deland

  Blue, Jewels, Sea

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• I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Race, Joy, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1791, Library of Alexandria

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• It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

  George Sand

  Leadership, Torches

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.342, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.

  Novalis

  Dream, Vision, World

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• The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for life and immortality. Now may each man, who has the sentence of Adam upon him, know that he is a kinsman of the Son of God. Now may he follow Him; and so, when the darkness is thickest around him and within, not walk in it, but see the Light of Life.

  Frederick Denison Maurice

  Son, Men, Darkness

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• And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Healing, Darkness, Cracks

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• The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

  Theodore Parker

  Dark, Men, Civilization

  Theodore Parker “The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”

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• Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss;
  Heaven once a week;
  The next world's gladness prepossest in this;
  A day to seek;
  Eternity in time; the steps by which
  We climb above all ages: lamps that light
  Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich
  And full redemption of the whole week's flight.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dark, Men, Heaven

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Tree, Ruins, Hills

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.141, Oxford University Press

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• Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

  Ellis Peters

  Truth, Way, Soil

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.2964, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

  Jeannette Walls

  Dark, Shining, Treasure

  Jeannette Walls (2014). “The Silver Star: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Nature, Spring, California

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• Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Father, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.29, Penguin

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• A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Animal, Wind, Breathing

  Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Time, Impact, Speed

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• The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

  Eleanor Clark

  Girl, Eye, Expression

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Wall, Real, Past

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.221, Northwestern University Press

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• The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Mystery, Function, Make Sense

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