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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
Clouds

"I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love."

Rocks Mirrors Clouds
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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
Clouds

"I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life."

Thinking Important Clouds
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Clouds

"God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh."

God Clouds Unseen
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
Clouds

"And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then."

Crazy New York Clouds
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Ovid Poet
Clouds

"Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face."

Clouds Shadow Rays
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Neil Gaiman Author
Clouds

"You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it."

Thinking Mean Clouds
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Clouds

"We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life."

Stars Science Clouds
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Clouds

"As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars!"

Stars Space Clouds
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Clouds

"But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets."

Years Clouds Dust
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Isabel Allende Novelist
Clouds

"That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities."

Lying Clouds Floating
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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
Clouds

"You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud."

Rain Clouds Cry
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Clouds

"You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?"

Thinking Real Clouds
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Clouds

"The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."

Running Sky Clouds
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Clouds

"There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow."

Dark Rivers Clouds
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Clouds

"Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures."

Lying Imagination Clouds
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Clouds

"When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst."

Life Imagination Clouds
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Clouds

"While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds."

One Day Clouds Sun
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