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Quotes About Illumination

I am out with lanterns looking for myself
~ Emily Dickinson
The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.
~ Enid Blyton
But what a light!
~ Enid Blyton
that other passage we saw, the right-hand one,' said George. 'Look, there it is.' She shone
~ Enid Blyton
Knowledge enlightens.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Entrevue rarement, la beaute illumine le monde. Cotoyee au quotidien, elle blesse, brule et cree des plaies qui ne cicatrisent jamais. La laideur est une benediction qui appelle l'exception et peut transformer une vie en maqnifique destin.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57
~ Erich Fromm
You can't fight evil in the dark, Sarah. The only way you can truly defeat it is to bring it into the light.
~ Amanda Stevens
the regular crying, lights on
~ Amir Gutfreund
But in the morning everything can, and must, be seen. Daylight takes us; it peels us like fruit.
~ Amy Bloom
Bobby cried out, groaned, and fell forward, coming that quickly, too quickly, because the white light would fade, would drain from them like come, and they would be left, just their heartbeats, alone in the darkness of an uncertain world.
~ Amy Lane
Galen's sweet Benedictine smile illuminated his face in that mix of glory and dirt, and John had to swallow hard or he would have just cried at beauty like a kid in church.
~ Amy Lane
And for a moment, Jeremy thought he was at the far end of a dark tunnel, and Aiden was the light at the end of it.
~ Amy Lane
Every Christian must refer always and everywhere to Scriptures for all his choices…not daring to take a step without being illuminated by the divine rays of those words.
~ Amy Welborn
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
~ Andre Breton
This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.
~ Andre Breton
Let us not lose sight of the fact that the idea of Surrealism aims quite simply at the total recovery of our psychic force by a means which is nothing other than the dizzying descent into ourselves, the systematic illumination of hidden places and the progressive darkening of other places, the perpetual excursion into the midst of forbidden territory, and that there is no real danger of its activities coming to an end so long as man still manages to distinguish an animal from a flame or a stone
~ Andre Breton
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
~ Cate Blanchett
The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed to see the results of photographs that I wouldn't take ordinarily. That's the advantage of digital photography.
~ William Klein
Lighting practically whenever I can when shooting period really helps with authenticity.
~ Rachel Morrison
Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.
~ Anthony Browne
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
~ Francis Bacon
The dark is light enough.
~ Christopher Fry
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle