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You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dange...

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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle ...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress ...

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Frida KahloThe Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o...

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It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like cryst...

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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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We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been sa...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Socie...

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into ...

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The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for...

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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from...

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Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go,...

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J. D. SalingerFranny and Zooey

The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life

Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep i...

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ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made ...

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The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into th...

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of th...

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When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it ...

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Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost...

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

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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

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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Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the u...

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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveli...

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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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