Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the complexities of duality in human experience, suggesting that darkness can also represent a form of enlightenment.
Jeanette Winterson's quote explores the idea that darkness and light are intertwined; one cannot exist without the other. It suggests that our perceptions of good and evil, or light and darkness, are subjective and may hold deeper meanings. By referencing Lucifer and fallen angels, the quote invites readers to consider the beauty and insights that can emerge from perceived negativity or moral ambiguity, challenging conventional notions of what is considered 'good'.
In practice
In a discussion about the complexity of human nature and morality.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.
When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.
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