“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.”
Source: The Library at Night
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“Who kindly sets a wand'rer on his way
Does e'en as if he lit another's lamp by his:
No less shines his, when he his friend's hath lit.”
Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat facit;
Nihilo minus ipsi lucet, cum illi accenderit.
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XVI - translation by Walter Miller

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Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 15

“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."”
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 41. This line is frequently translated as "I am looking for an honest man."
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