Marcel Proust Quotes
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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My first thought is always of light.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
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Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
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We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant.
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After a day in Cannes, I pass out before I even get to my bed. I'll get to my room, order room service, shower, and sleep.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
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I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.
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Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
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There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.
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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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All, all for immortality,Love like the light silently wrapping all.
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I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light alone.
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I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
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Too often today people are ready to tell us: 'This is not possible, that is not possible.' I say: whatever the true interest of our country calls for is always possible.
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
