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• I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Airplane, Jumping, Gathering

  "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

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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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• Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Heart, Love Is

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.369

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• I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.

  Eddie Vedder

  Beautiful, Taken, Air

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

  David Lynch

  Negativity, Darkness, Sides

  "An Ocean of Solutions". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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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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• If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Be Kind, Would Be, Fingers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

  Joseph Joubert

  Reflection, Wings, Long

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Time, Impact, Speed

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• ... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

  Susan Glaspell

  May, Wrong Person, Persons

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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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 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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• The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Waiting

  Thomas Chalmers (1836). “Works”, p.314

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• The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

  Carson McCullers

  Memories, Night, Space

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

  Susan Glaspell

  Heart, Feelings, Facts

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes

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• As new discoveries are causing all-penetrating physical lights so to abound as that, as has been said, we shall soon not know where in the world to get any darkness, so our new facilities for every sort of communication work to reduce privacy much within its former limits.

  Harriet Martineau

  Communication, Discovery, Darkness

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.90

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