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- Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
- Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in. - Unknown
- From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. - Visions of Gregorian Chants
- Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig
- What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty. - Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
- You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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