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...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a go...

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Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time...

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Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks ...

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The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems

I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were t...

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Michael Collins (Irish leader)Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro...

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Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything w...

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, b...

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Mircea EliadeThe Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....

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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the ci...

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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all ...

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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It...

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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a...

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That’s the moon,’ I said.‘Gran likes it like that,’ said Lettie Hempstock.‘But it was a crescent moo...

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We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I ...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came....

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name fr...

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But...

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For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just big...

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If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that m...

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I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel...

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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals,...

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To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch ...

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Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From a...

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Tomorrow at seven o'clock a strange phenomenon will occur: the earth is going to sit on the moon. Th...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they...

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Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon i...

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There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods wi...

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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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Oscar WildeThe Nightingale and the Rose

Your eyes have the colour of the moon,

Of so much moon were your hips to me,of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,of so much burni...

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A little after moonrise Stephen woke. Extreme hunger had brought on cramps in his midriff again and ...

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I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

You’re a dreamer, boy,” he said. “Your mind is on the moon, and from the looks of things, it’s never...

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People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to po...

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She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a stro...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

That orbed maiden with white fire laden Whom mortals call the moon.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

It was the Kojagar full moon, and I was slowly pacing the riverside conversing with myself. It could...

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The next time you stand on a beach at night, watching the moon’s bright path across the water, and t...

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We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

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Ray BradburyA Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

Bet I know something else you don't. There's dew on the grass in the morning.'He suddenly couldn't r...

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Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from ...

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But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude...

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Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there...

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The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river wer...

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...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bo...

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Samuel R. DelanyThe Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village

I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not sm...

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I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaces...

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One time Marian showed me some sand. When she gave it to me, she said, "These are very interesting s...

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Shunryu SuzukiNot Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in co...

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Look at her good, Lily," she said, "'cause you're seeing the end of something.""I am?""Yes, you are,...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun M...

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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

The night became silver again; looking up, it was as if they saw the moon sailing through the clouds...

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My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylu...

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The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulle...

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Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds ...

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What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dar...

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Terry PratchettWitches Abroad

I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see,As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze...

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Thomas HardyThe Complete Poems

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from...

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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swi...

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You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there...

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There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

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Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker

How happy he must be, this Hobgoblin," exclaimed Sniff."He isn't a bit," replied Snufkin, "and he wo...

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I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill,...

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends...

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Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, f...

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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

Up there in the sky.Don’t you see him?No, not the moon.The Man in the Moon.He wasn’t always a man.No...

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We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission...

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The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk....

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, an...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky t...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

White in the moon the long road lies,The moon stands blank above;White in the moon the long road lie...

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The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of wh...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wa...

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

As it Were tissue of silver I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon's Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy th...

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake waterA woman's shriek assaults the earWhile above, in the...

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Alexander BlokThe Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...

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