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“Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.”

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Book:The end of nature

Source: The end of nature

“Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be more luminous than the high-lights of our predecessors, and our pictures, next to those of the museums, will shine like blinding daylight, compared with deepest night. We conclude that painting cannot exist today without divisionism... ...Divisionism, for the modern painter, must be an innate complementariness which we declare to be essential and necessary.”

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Author:Umberto Boccioni

“Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they have to do it over and over again.”

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Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.”

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Author:Hallie Flanagan

“To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.”

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Author:Allan McNish

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.”

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Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak.”

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Book:Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life

Source: Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

Knows Night Sun Gratitude Essentials Shadow Myth Of Sisyphus

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays