Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
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There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
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I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'
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Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.
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We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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Woods in the predawn darkness, the silence only broken by the sloshing of his flask.
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I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.
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If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
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This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.
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Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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Real luxury is customization.
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When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.
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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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The words “human nature” can be the greatest obstacle to human growth.
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Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.
