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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be...

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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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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

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn...

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You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky,

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

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Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

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Rabindranath TagoreChitra - A Play in One Act

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...

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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

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

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Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

Tess was awake before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save f...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

Paris, viewed from the towers of Notre Dame in the cool dawn of a summer morning, is a delectable an...

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Victor HugoThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; n...

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A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the...

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Willa CatherApril Twilights: and Other Poems

Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small cre...

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IVREVEILLEWake: the silver dusk returningUp the beach of darkness brims,And the ship of sunrise burn...

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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

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Arthur RimbaudSeason in Hell Other Poems

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It...

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As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of bi...

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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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Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky...

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...

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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'D...

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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

The light that brings the dawn.

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-l...

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What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little but...

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends ...

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Dawn is ever the hope of men.

Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.

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John BanvilleThe Infinities