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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental br...

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Juan Ramón JiménezTime and Space: A Poetic Autobiography

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

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The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.

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Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

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Joseph Gordon-LevittThe Tiny Book of Tiny Stories

The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ...

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Joyce Carol OatesAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself thr...

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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling St...

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I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted strai...

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It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming...

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He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her a...

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Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How...

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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted p...

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When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

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

The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was we...

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Malcolm LowryUnder the Volcano

After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith,...

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn...

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And then I feel the sun itselfas it blazes over the hills,like a million flowers on fire --clearly I...

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It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to...

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Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a go...

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Michio KakuParallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which phys...

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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everyth...

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There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about wheth...

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in th...

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Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from ...

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At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It

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

Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weath...

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Of so much moon were your hips to me,of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,of so much burni...

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from that terrible love the soft pure handsgave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.

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Pablo Neruda100 Love Sonnets

Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas?How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the oran...

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Pablo NerudaThe Book of Questions

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun...

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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to po...

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DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc ...

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Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the t...

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The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the huma...

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows c...

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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

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Ray BradburyA Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful ...

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And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The ...

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Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

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Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

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Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to ...

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Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, eve...

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The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall ...

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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from ...

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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river wer...

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

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Seán O'CaseyThree More Plays: The Silver Tassie

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great ...

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Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail t...

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The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin t...

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A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun M...

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Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while...

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Terry PratchettThe Last Continent

But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed ang...

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It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light...

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Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ ...

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And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, T...

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How happy he must be, this Hobgoblin," exclaimed Sniff."He isn't a bit," replied Snufkin, "and he wo...

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Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She ...

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If no one loved, the sun would go out.

What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic thoug...

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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...

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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brillia...

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A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...

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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the b...

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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, ...

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They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from wh...

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June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold,The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill hi...

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Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold fl...

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When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the b...

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My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kill...

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a f...

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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...

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Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

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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Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

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

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird ...

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It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physi...

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André BretonAnthology of Black Humor