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162 Illuminate quotes by 139 unique authors
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the…
— Henri Barbusse
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We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate…
— Helen Hayes
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Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up…
— Karen Hesse
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Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
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Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to…
— Nicholas Sparks
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For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will…
— Audre Lorde
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Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
— Jimmy Buffett
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch.…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is…
— Wayne Dyer
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I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you…
— Christopher Paolini
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I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts.…
— Paulo Coelho
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If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
— Werner Herzog
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I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into…
— Charles de Lint
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...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be…
— Dave Barry
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Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy…
— Brandon Sanderson
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How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not…
— Jeet Thayil
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You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce…
— Laura Esquivel
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Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.
— Paulo Coelho
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I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
— Milan Kundera
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The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication…
— Unknown Author
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