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Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945–1981Related quotes
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 1 : The Meaning of Life
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Here are two kinds of light, the light on the hither side of the darkness and the light beyond the darkness. We must press on through the darkness and the terror of it if we would reach the holier light beyond.
We are here — no matter who put us here, or how we came here — to fulfil a task. We cannot afford to go of our own volition until the last item of our duty is discharged.
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80
“Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Context: Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu book Carmilla
Variant: Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
Source: Carmilla
Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer
Source: In the Forest
