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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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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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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It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.
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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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Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
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There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.
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Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.
