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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.


Charles Dickens

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GARY F EVANS... Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
DAVID KELLEY I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE …to descend from bright heaven to earth, whereon there are shadows because there are hills…
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STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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JEN CAMPBELL Wherever you are, be all there.
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SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to...
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KATHERINE DUNN we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
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OSHO Due to its high brightness and contrast ratios there are no other displays that currently match the ...
NAAS ORRSER People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
C.J. ROBERTS But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark....
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ALEXEI SMERTIN We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
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A. CRETAN You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away
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S. J. ROZAN ... there are shadows because there are hills.
E.M. FORSTER Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
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In the ...
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MAYA ANGELOU On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
JULES RENARD On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it
JULES RENARD Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Secrets are dark things. They don’t exist in the light. They
glow faintly in forgotten corner...
SUKANYA VENKATRAGHAVAN We want to turn the lights on in some of those places that have been in the dark.
ANGIE CARTER The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in une...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-ope...
HOPE MIRRLEES Our lights are probably on until 3 in the morning because there is always somebody here doing someth...
ADAM HOWARD Charron never lost confidence in himself. When the bright lights are on, he wants to be out there.
JOE MIHALICH It's a date, isn't it," she realized. "Praise to the Virgin Scribe, I have a date!"
Trez laughe...
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LEMONY SNICKET I hide in the shadows where only dark spirits can see.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lu...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
ALLAN DWAN There are no passengers on spaceship Earth- we are all the crew.
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MACDONALD HARRIS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.
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CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS