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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
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"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
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"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."
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"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out."
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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
Fire

"While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change."
Change

"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"
Love

"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."
Maturity

"Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers."
Church

"Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?"
Sin

"The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible."
Family

"Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will."
Love

"Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older."
Emotional

"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"
Time
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