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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

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At first I couldn't see anything. I fumbled along the cobblestone street. I lit a cigarette. Suddenl...

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The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracl...

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In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains ca...

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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemi...

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Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Nigh...

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Omar KhayyámThe Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the m...

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Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair,

and everything burned in blue, everything a star

There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years...

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The stars were going out now, one by one, dropping like pennies behind the television aerials and th...

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The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops an...

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I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, t...

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

But if a man be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, wil...

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prese...

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And then, to the sound of death, the sound of the jets cutting the sky in two black pieces beyond th...

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The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a do...

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He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning th...

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Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

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Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451

The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. ...

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Fireflies in the GardenBy Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And h...

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Robert FrostThe Poetry of Robert Frost

Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their o...

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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with thei...

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I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny an...

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My night shall be remembered for a starThat outshone all the suns of all men's days

Where do you go when you're lonely?Where do you go when you're blue?Where do you go when you're lone...

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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars

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SapphoSappho: A New Translation

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! Yo...

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Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with ...

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Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bi...

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She wants her cup of stars.

She wants her cup of stars.

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start r...

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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about ...

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Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possibl...

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I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting ...

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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fi...

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A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you look...

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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't ha...

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Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet aga...

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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute wit...

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And strange-eyed constellations reignHis stars eternally.

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Thomas HardySelected Poems

Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They s...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.”“Awesome.”“Maybe, but...

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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud...

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I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and mayb...

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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 are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...

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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

What are you thinking of discovering?"Moomintroll cleared his throat and felt very proud. "Oh, every...

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Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...

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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...

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He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart w...

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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...

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Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise o...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

. . . distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communin...

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The More Loving OneLooking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to he...

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forc...

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You never get tired of looking at the stars

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Warren EllisThe Planetary Omnibus

Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is...

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The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars whi...

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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.

Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, the...

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William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which...

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E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would n...

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Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous...

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Stars, I have seen them fall,But when they drop and dieNo star is lost at allFrom all the star-sown ...

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A. E. HousmanA Shropshire Lad

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...

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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

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

Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

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

As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and rais...

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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man f...

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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...

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You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark ...

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The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expressio...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

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’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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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.

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André BretonThe Magnetic Fields

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies ...

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