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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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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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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

I’m a moon junky. Every time I look at the moon I feel less alone and less afraid. I tell my boys th...

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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot roc...

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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to...

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Beyond the lake the waning moon has slowed,And stands there like a window open wideInto a hushed and...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way...

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Don't tell me the moon is shining show me the glint of light on broken glass.

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time an...

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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,Now the sun is laid to sleep,Seated in thy silver chair,State in...

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When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can...

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Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion yea...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is the...

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They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my he...

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No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyra...

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By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and...

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Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo p...

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Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoi...

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The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership...

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My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of look...

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It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food e...

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As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar cre...

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For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Ri...

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The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The moon was wide—too wide and too close. Mentally, Simon told the moon to stop being so close and b...

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Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuveLa pleine lune s'étalait,Et la solennité de la nuit, comme...

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I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

How do we know where we're going? Follow the moon! Remember, the moon is always over Hollywood, and ...

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One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents...

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Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed ups...

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Clive BarkerThe Thief of Always

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees...

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Sometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric...

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She turned, and saw a great white moon looking at her over the hill. And her breast opened to it, sh...

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Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally...

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It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It i...

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In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was a...

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Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the di...

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Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the...

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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exist...

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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...

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Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.

I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The ...

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Moon and SeaYou are the moon, dear love, and I the sea:The tide of hope swells high within my breast...

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The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

THE MOON was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the worl...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary look...

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If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

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Ernest HemingwayThe Complete Short Stories

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am gla...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in...

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Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.

Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full.

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon a...

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It was then between one o'clock in the morning and half-past that hour; the sky soon cleared a bit b...

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Guy de MaupassantGhostly By Gaslight

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling ...

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The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-l...

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There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated o...

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The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the...

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Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.

Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, “Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms latel...

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Anyhow, I took every stitch of clothing off and got out of bed. And I got down on my knees on the fl...

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I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within th...

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There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month - I've no idea ...

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I realised that the moon was not a safe place. It knew a thousand ways to kill you if you were stupi...

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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominanc...

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The moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into th...

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While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new worl...

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Jhumpa LahiriInterpreter of Maladies