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• From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

  Rachel Cohn

  Distance, Eye, Soul

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• A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Clouds

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.77, GENERAL PRESS

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• Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Tree, Speak, Breathe

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Style, Add

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

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• If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

  Mason Cooley

  Funny, Dental Work, Ideas

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• You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.

  Juliette Drouet

  Sun, Seven, Adore

  Juliette Drouet (2015). “Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Light, Brain, Done

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.39, Rodale

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• A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

  George Santayana

  Character, Greatness, Men

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Sweaters, Machines, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Spring, Eye

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• I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

  Carrie Fisher

  Numbers, Birth Defects, Birth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hero, Needs, Caves

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Last Continent: (Discworld Novel 22)”, p.383, Random House

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• Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

  I. L. Peretz

  Stars, Sky, Heaven

  "Drei Matones" (1904-1915). As quoted in "Peretz" by S. Liptzin, p. 187, 1947.

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• A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Doe, Facts

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.195, Cooper Square Press

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• Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Eye, Feet

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Adventure, Vapour, Way

  'The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes' (1765) preface (Yale ed., p. 74)

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• Luminous,
  unfearful;
  high-priestesses,
  our fervour
  shall banish
  all evil.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Evil, Religion, Priestesses

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.475, New Directions Publishing

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• [Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.

  James Madison

  Errors, Glimpse, Veils

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.474

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• In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Color, Design

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• We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Dark, Color, Two

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• The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sweet, Home, Son

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1945, Library of America

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• The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Light, Self

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?" Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table." Gus: "Nicely phrased." Gus's father: "Our children are weird." My dad: "Nicely phrased."

  John Green

  Children, Dad, Father

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• Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the vast space of primordial awareness, and there is just this. Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of satori, that it was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with satori or awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: it's just this.

  Ken Wilber

  Morning, Reality, Sky

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mistake, Moving, Heart

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