“Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.”
Source: Farewell Waltz
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Milan Kundera198
Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023Related quotes
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
2010s, 2013, Interview in La Repubblica
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
2010s, 2013, Interview in La Repubblica
Context: God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Lei, quando ti guarda con un sorriso che brilla di una luce intensa e vitale, è capace di illuminare il mondo intero.
Source: prevale.net
Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015) Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
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För levande och döda (For the Living and the Dead) 1996
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Variant: Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Source: This is My Story
Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
On writing young adult novels in “Randa Abdel-Fattah: Identity and emotion” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/randa-abdel-fattah/ in The Writer (2018 Jan 18)