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.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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