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• Cualquier cosa por la vida rápida, como dijo el hombre cuando tomó la situación en el faro.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Success, Men

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• You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep

  Alfred de Musset

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Simple, Illumination

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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• A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Iglesia

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• When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.

  Chris Tomlin

  Song, Writing, People

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

  Anthony Rapp

  Grief, Doe, Temperature

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• ...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Alive, World

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friday, Sleep, Light

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• What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Work, Pioneers, Steers

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1945). “Yankee from Olympus”

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• He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Loneliness, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• Los libros son los portadores de la civilización. Sin libros, la historia es muda.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Libro, Literatura Historia, Civilización

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• La música country siempre está cambiando, pero el Opry siempre está ahí para servir de faro de lo que es realmente la música country. El pasado, el presente y el futuro están englobados no solo en la estructura física del edificio, sino también en el programa de radio.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Past, Radio

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• Sin los libros el desarrollo de la civilización habría sido imposible. Son los motores del cambio, ventanas al mundo, "Faros" como dijo el poeta "erigidos en el mar del tiempo". Son compañeros, maestros, magos, banqueros de los tesoros de la mente, Los libros son la humanidad impresa.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Change, Teacher, Book

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.28, Publishdrive

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise. There was only the storm of Barrons and the one I seemed to be, and if there were dark shapes moving in the waters beneath my feet that I should probably take a good hard look at and possibly reconsider trying to swim here, I didn’t care.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moving, Dark, Feet

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.396, Dell

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• Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

  Graham Swift

  Profesor, Niños, Escuela

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Compassion, Mind

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• Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Weather, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.128

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• Hay momentos en los que el océano no es el océano: no es azul, ni siquiera agua, sino una violenta explosión de energía y peligro: una ferocidad a una escala que sólo los dioses pueden convocar.

  M. L. Stedman

  Ocean, Blue, Water

  "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.

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• Era como si sólo viviera del aire claro y salado, y cuando llegara el día de su muerte, probablemente haría exactamente eso. Dar un paso a un lado. Disolverse en un viento del noroeste que giraba alrededor del faro de North Point, y luego hacia el mar.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Air, Wind, Sea

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• Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Time, Moving, Book

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• for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Unity, Tablets

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.92, OUP Oxford

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• the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
  buoys,
  advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
  dropped things are bound to sink--
  in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
  consciousness.

  Marianne Moore

  Ocean, Sea, Noise

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Sea

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• My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.

  Honor Harger

  Jobs, Technology, Agency

  "Learn to look - art and tech demand it" by Honor Harger, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

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