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Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one ...

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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simpl...

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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

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Gustave FlaubertFlaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in th...

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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will ...

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I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes...

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

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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who loo...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Sk...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And the...

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

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Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or...

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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are n...

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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the sta...

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the sta...

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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-no...

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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilig...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the sta...

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the sta...

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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely ...

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Immanuel KantCritique of Practical Reason

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, a...

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden o...

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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

If the ancients had been able to see it as I see it now, Mr. Palomar thinks, they would have thought...

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that's all the stars do, look at lovers – that's why they're so beautiful

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

...the stars are fixed in rooftops like ink.

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Can...

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Star-watching: at night the stars of Alastor Cluster blaze in profusion. The atmosphere refracts the...

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Jack VanceTrullion: Alastor 2262

In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell an...

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Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with...

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Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness...

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How will the ships navigatewithout stars? And then he remembered that the stars weredead, long dead,...

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I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life liv...

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Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like...

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At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in hi...

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I'm gonna love you Till the heavens Stop the rain.I'm gonna Love you Till the stars Fall from the sk...

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If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, th...

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His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe...

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The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a s...

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Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. ...

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Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole gramm...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. "Congratulations," I say,...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. ...

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What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on...

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There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them throu...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when ...

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Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our natio...

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Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

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Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

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To find the universal elements enough to find the air and the water exhilarating to be refreshed by ...

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Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and...

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Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore...

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We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, becaus...

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We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did no...

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there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom,...

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Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the natur...

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There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on....

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,And pavement stars—as starts to thee appearSoon in the ga...

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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...

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Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and isl...

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It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, f...

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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...

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It doesnot matter; there’s many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us ofa night that mankind h...

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All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receiv...

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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this...

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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece ...

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What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

I realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I was sc...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.

I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until ...

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Leonard CohenLet Us Compare Mythologies

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my...

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Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from d...

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If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get ba...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Ring of Endless Light

Charles Wallace and the unicorn moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far glazy, and he reali...

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It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my d...

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It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...

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One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...

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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men wh...

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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few rema...

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