#illuminate

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ↗

— James Thurber

#glow #illuminates #kinds #light #obscures

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. ↗

— Emil Nolde

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I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable. ↗

— Will Smith

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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. ↗

— Georges Braque

#itself #only #poetry #ray #reality

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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