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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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Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in ...

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, ...

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay ...

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and s...

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The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeo...

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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to...

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All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide...

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Mary ButtsThe Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

I saw the first light, fore-running the sun, gather in a cup of the eastern cloud, gather and grow a...

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, And you, ye stars,Who slowly begin to marshal,As of old, the fields of heaven,Your distant, melanc...

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Matthew ArnoldEmpedocles on Etna and Other Poems

For rigorous teachers seized my youth,And purged its faith, and trimmed its fire,Showed me the high,...

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Matthew ArnoldThe Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People ...

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I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to ag...

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The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sent...

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And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, y...

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Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster t...

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One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...

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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...

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I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful o...

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

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Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and ca...

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Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...

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Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into ...

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