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It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North s...

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BonoBono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you ...

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And then as the knives and forks began to clank softly above the white tablecloths, the violins woul...

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When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but...

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There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...

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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of T...

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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclea...

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Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater th...

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pi...

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Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we ...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found him...

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The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.

My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante w...

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The love that moves the sun and all the other starsThe kind of love that can burn the world or raise...

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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with ...

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I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of ...

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The night was as dark by this time as it would be until morning; and what light we had, seemed to co...

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Charles DickensGreat Expectations

A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and ...

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After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the s...

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What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So man...

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be part...

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The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the ...

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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which ke...

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I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on go...

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It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like ...

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He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of ...

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It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The...

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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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I watched the stars and thought of other lives.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic fo...

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This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic a...

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Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...

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Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, u...

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

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I put back my head, looking up at the deep black sky swimming with hot stars. If you knew they were ...

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Diana GabaldonWritten in My Own Heart's Blood

It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.

His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They w...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our d...

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Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro' the light...

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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there wo...

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There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to liv...

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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing...

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Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and hav...

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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 took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...

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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like ...

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the ab...

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A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes,which are nearly faded

Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich i...

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Frank O'HaraThe Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and a...

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you st...

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Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the un...

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Galileo GalileiDiscoveries and Opinions of Galileo

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wa...

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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and plane...

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George GamowThe Creation of the Universe

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

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

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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