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«At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. - A River Runs Through it»
«It holds up in one object or one surface, in one bright, luminous and concentrated thing-whether a beer can or a flag-all the dispersed elements that go to make up our lives.»
«Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.»
«It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.»
«A book should be luminous not voluminous.»
«In his poetry as well as in his life Shelley was indeed 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel', beating in the void his luminous wings in vain»
«In intuitive balance, the Unseen is recognized - the Fearless, Luminous, Formless Lord.»
«Lord is the Patron of the poor, the Merciful, Luminous Lord, the Redeemer of sinners. From the very beginning, and throughout the ages, the True Name of the Creator has been our Saving Grace.»
«Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: halo, luminous, transparent
«Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: gig, lamps, luminous, symmetrically

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