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Quotes About Illumination

Olen tiennyt polttavani kynttilää molemmista päistä ja todennut sen usein luovan oikein miellyttävää valoa.
~ Christopher Hitchens
not the end of the world, just darkness over everything, Charlie cheerfully said. it gets dark - turn on a light.
~ Christopher Moore
A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air.
~ Christopher Paolini
light that guides one person will guide a hundred. Be that light.
~ Tzvi Freeman
Born blind, he could move in that handsome luminous space (yes, he said luminous) of his church, seeing, as he said, the sun with his skin
~ Umberto Eco
Porque de tres cosas depende la belleza: en primer lugar, de la integridad o perfección, y por eso consideramos feo lo incompleto; luego, de la justa proporción, o sea de la consonancia; por último, de la claridad y la luz.
~ Umberto Eco
How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!
~ Umberto Eco
Quorum primus seraphico calculo purgatus ardore celico inflammatus totum incendere videbatur. Secundus vero verbo predicationis fecundus super mundi tenebras clarius radiavit
~ Umberto Eco
a cor não é mais do que a luz do sol aprisionada ...
~ Umberto Eco
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
~ Victor Hugo
God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.
~ Victor Hugo
La vérité est comme le soleil, elle fait tout voir et ne se laisse pas regarder.
~ Victor Hugo
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
~ Victor Hugo
They shall exist, and so long as society shall be what it is, they will be what they are. Under the dark vault of their cave, they are forever reproduced in the ooze. What is required to exorcise these goblins? Light. Light in floods. No bat resists the dawn. Illuminate society.
~ Victor Hugo
A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.
~ Victor Hugo
Light renders healthy.
~ Victor Hugo
Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as though drawn by an irresistible fascination, steps that started off dark, then gradually became dimly illuminated, only to end in the luminous and splendid blaze of enthusiasm.
~ Victor Hugo
It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.
~ Victor Hugo
Le ciel était absolument noir, il n'y avait plus d'étoiles, mais évidemment il en voyait une.
~ Victor Hugo
Je vois de la lumière neuve (I see a new light)
~ Victor Hugo
Que faut-il pour faire évanouir ces larves? de la lumière. De la lumière à flots. Pas une chauve-souris ne résiste à l'aube. Éclairez la société en dessous.
~ Victor Hugo
La lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle tremble.
~ Victor Hugo
Ako ima ne?eg bolnijeg od tijela koje umire bez hljeba, to je duša koja umire jer je gladna svjetlosti.
~ Victor Hugo
Frères, qui meurt ici meurt dans le rayonnement de l'avenir, et nous entrons dans une tombe toute pénétrée d'aurore.
~ Victor Hugo