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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 is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in...

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

Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full.

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon a...

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It was then between one o'clock in the morning and half-past that hour; the sky soon cleared a bit b...

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Guy de MaupassantGhostly By Gaslight

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling ...

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The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.

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

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There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated o...

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The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the...

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Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.

Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, “Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms latel...

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Anyhow, I took every stitch of clothing off and got out of bed. And I got down on my knees on the fl...

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I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within th...

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There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month - I've no idea ...

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I realised that the moon was not a safe place. It knew a thousand ways to kill you if you were stupi...

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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominanc...

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The moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

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

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While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new worl...

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Jhumpa LahiriInterpreter of Maladies

Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully.I had n...

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Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against ou...

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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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I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of...

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...

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Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United...

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The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that ever...

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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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Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad in her sober livery all things clad;Silence accompan...

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It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...

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Jon StewartEarth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With ou...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

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

A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon ...

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Joyce Carol OatesFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about drif...

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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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Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the ...

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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelibl...

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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 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 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

Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

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Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner

Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figur...

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Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t wa...

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If I spelled out the Principles of FaithI would be barking on the moon.

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Leonard CohenThe Spice Box of Earth

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No coun...

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Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of t...

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Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, t...

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...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a go...

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Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time...

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Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks ...

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The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems

I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were t...

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Michael Collins (Irish leader)Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro...

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Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything w...

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, b...

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Mircea EliadeThe Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

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

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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the ci...

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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all ...

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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It...

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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a...

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That’s the moon,’ I said.‘Gran likes it like that,’ said Lettie Hempstock.‘But it was a crescent moo...

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We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I ...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came....

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name fr...

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But...

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For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just big...

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If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that m...

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I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel...

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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals,...

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To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch ...

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Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From a...

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Tomorrow at seven o'clock a strange phenomenon will occur: the earth is going to sit on the moon. Th...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they...

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Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon i...

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There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods wi...

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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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Oscar WildeThe Nightingale and the Rose

Your eyes have the colour of the moon,

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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A little after moonrise Stephen woke. Extreme hunger had brought on cramps in his midriff again and ...

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I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

You’re a dreamer, boy,” he said. “Your mind is on the moon, and from the looks of things, it’s never...

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

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She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a stro...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die