#illuminate

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. ↗

— Emil Nolde

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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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