"M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense."

-- Giuseppe Ungaretti

#Light Quotes #Flood Quotes

“Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.”
“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
“We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2010). “Love and Obstacles”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
“An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere.”
“Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.114, The Overlook Press
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
“Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders”

Source : "Chespirito, the Mexican comedian who inspired Simpsons character, dies at 85" by Andrew Johnson, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2014.
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”

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