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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

—James Thurber

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What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

—M. C. Escher

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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

—Oprah Winfrey

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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

—Plato

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I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

—Steven Wright

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I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

—Helen Hunt Jackson

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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

—William Wordsworth

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Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

—Evita Peron

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

—Anton Chekhov

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

—Aristotle

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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

—Woody Allen

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When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.

—Elon Musk

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