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I am luminous with age.
Meridel Le Sueur / Writer
Age
Luminous
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Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay / Artist
Art
Nature
Language
Luminous
Painting
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PICTURE OF LIGHT is luminous and genuinely transcendent.
Gerald Peary / Film Critic
Light
Luminous
Transcendent
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The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Language
Luminous
Should
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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan / Dancer
Dance
Music
Body
Dancer
Luminous
Manifestation
Soul
Simply
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Keep Going
Luminous
Night
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Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay / Artist
Direct
Essence
Indispensable
Luminous
Observation
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
Jeanette Winterson / Writer
Luminous
Risk
Risk It
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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Ethel Barrymore / Actress
Acting
Actors
Luminous
Stage
Theater
Conductors
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty.
Edward M Hays / Author
Christmas
Smile
Deep Within
Emmanuel
Luminous
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We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
Nikos Kazantzakis / Writer
Abyss
Dark
Ends
Luminous
Come
Call
Interval
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Merge your consciousness with that of a luminous being ... and then from there to eternity.
Frederick Lenz / Author
Yoga
Consciousness
Eternity
Luminous
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I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.
Carrie Fisher / Actress
Birth Defects
Luminous
Numbers
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For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.
Adam Gidwitz / Author
Luminous
Zone
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
Lafcadio Hearn / Writer
Ancient
Chinese
Fancy
Heaven
Luminous
Milky Way
Rivers
Silver
River
Stream
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Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
Comte De Lautreamont /
Algebra
Arithmetic
Geometry
Grandiose
Luminous
Without
Sense
Triangle
Whoever
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To me, music is a luminous experience. Whenever I'm immersed in it, life lights up for me, no matter what else is going on.
Anat Cohen /
Luminous
Life Experience Music
Immersed
Lights
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I always have Giorgio Armani's Luminous Silk Foundation, Bobbi Brown's Jenna lipstick, and my Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer.
Ella Eyre /
Armani
Brown
Foundation
Lipstick
Luminous
Silk
Double
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I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'
Latanya Richardson /
Diana
Luminous
Graduated
Macbeth
Sands
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo / Poet
Eye
Flesh
Invisible
Luminous
Night
Strange
World
Eyes World See
Eyes
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What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short excursions into the unknown.
Frederick Lenz / Author
Teacher
Buddhism
Luminous
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You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.
Debbie Ford / Author
Breadth
Depth
Light
Luminous
Dim
Fully
Present
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet
Men
Chaos
Divine
Enthusiasm
Ethical
Feelings
Luminous
Element
Encircle
Thoughts
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A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.
Johannes Stark / Physicist
Beam
Electric
Hydrogen
Luminous
Moving
Owing
Rays
Velocity
Canal
Direction
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Same Direction
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Be happy and free. Be able to see psychically and understand what is going on in the universe, what your luminosity is about, and how to reorder your luminous fibers.
Frederick Lenz / Author
Able
Fiber
Luminous
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At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
Norman Maclean / Author
Love
Clear
Elude
Elude Us
Elude You
Luminous
Should
Sunrise
Understanding
Live
Who
Those
Complete
Complete Understanding
Without
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf / Writer
Life
Consciousness
Halos
Lamps
Luminous
Series
Life Beginning End
Arranged
Beginning
End
Envelope
Gig
Halo
Life Is A
Surrounding
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I'm more to my family than a wonderful, luminous cook. I'm also a wonderful, luminous butler and a wonderful, luminous chauffer. And checkbook. I'm a luminous checkbook, too.
Maryjanice Davidson / Author
Luminous
Butler
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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.
Ernst Mach / Physicist
Space
Colour
Dependence
Instance
Luminous
Source
Temperature
Consider
Forth
Object
Spaces
Temperatures
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No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.
Michael Servetus / Theologian
Body
Luminous
Wish
Full
Faculties
Normally
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Hans Hofmann / Painter
Experience
Aim
Emanate
Energy
Insight
Light
Luminous
Mystic
Painting
Life Nature Experience
Accordance
Open
Create
Pulsating
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All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
Pope Benedict Xvi /
Baroque
Cathedrals
Epiphany
Gothic
Luminous
Manifestation
Splendid
Works
Churches
Sign
Thus
Truly
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I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.
Meghan O'rourke / Poet
Crosses
Eye
Fleeting
Lovely
Luminous
Mother
Spring
Cardinal
Edge
Every Day
Thoughts
She
Startling
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I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
Brian Dennehy / Actor
Extraordinary
Luminous
Natural
Nicholson
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Situation
Star
Gene
Hackman
Jack
Jack Nicholson
Problems
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If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
Pope Benedict Xvi /
Luminous
Millennia
Passed
Saints
Survives
Wake
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I was given an eight-foot painting on a luminous yellow background as a parting gift when leaving Paris in 2008. I did not dare take it with me to N.Y.C. and understood that the cost of shipping would have far outweighed the cost of the work.
Alexander Gilkes /
Cost
Dare
Given
Leaving
Luminous
Painting
Parting
Shipping
Understood
Yellow
Background
Far
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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
Carolyn See / Professor
Captured
Luminous
Pianist
Most Beautiful Beautiful World
Alto
Beautiful Most Beautiful Look
Beautiful Look World
Lee
Marsh
Most Beautiful
Sax
Tenor
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For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.
Alexandra Fuller / Author
Agony
Luminous
Profound
Transmission
Hugely
Weakened
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Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.
Lucy Larcom / Poet
Girl
Appearance
Character
Children
Completeness
Luminous
Moon
Womanly
Belongs
Curve
Except
Nor
Phase
Rounding
Thin
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
Rebecca Harding Davis / Author
Wise
Heart
Luminous
Path
Summer
Ugly
Below
Closely
Glow
Helped
Rule
Shines
Whose
Worm
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Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.
Emmanuelle Beart / Film Actress
Impression
Luminous
Tiny
Washing
Little Thing
Screen
Suddenly
Sweater
Washing Machine
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Donna Tartt blows me away - that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up the whole room, and the way she brings her characters to life so completely and in such fine detail that you know them as intimately as your dearest friends.
Tana French / Novelist
Fine
Impeccable
Luminous
Rich
Life Your Me
Life Me Way
Blows
Brings
Dearest
Detail
Life Me Your
Lights
Room
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Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'
Samantha Shannon / Writer
Aspire
Capture
Harry Potter
Intricate
Luminous
Sense Of Humor
Storyteller
All Writers
Bone
Harry
Potter
Readers
Rowling
Season
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I really like Armani Luminous Silk Foundation in the winter because it has SPF, and it's still important to protect your skin from the sun in the wintertime. I'm also really into also vera - just organic, natural aloe vera gel that I put on all over my skin to moisturize.
Sarah Gadon / Actress
Armani
Luminous
Natural
Protect
Silk
Sun
Winter
Skin
Gel
Organic
Vera
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Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.
John Banville / Novelist
Bloody
Events
Extraordinary
Luminous
Apply
Fraught
Magical
Miracles
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That animal part of us, it's the most interesting part. It's everything that has to do with drives, with things we can't stop ourselves from doing, with all the spaces where we're unable to reason with ourselves. It has its dark side, but there's a luminous side, too, which is the fact that we're just another species of animal.
Leila Slimani /
Animal
Dark Side
Luminous
Drives
Spaces
Unable
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