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Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves.

Steven Magee
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A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure--as if it mattered. It seemed to him now that such thoughts were mean, unworthy of what his life had been. Dim presences gathered at the edge of his consciousness; he could not see them, but he knew that they were there, gathering their forces toward a kind of palpability he could not see or hear. He was approaching them, he knew; but there was no need to hurry. He could ignore them if he wished; he had all the time there was.There was a softness around him, and a languor crept upon his limbs. A sense of his own identity came upon him with a sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

John Williams, Stoner
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Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.

Albert Einstein
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What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history

Peter Cunningham, The Sea and the Silence
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle
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Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle
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A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Samuel Johnson
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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

James Ramsey Ullman
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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

Voltaire
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