"But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!"
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"The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth."
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"Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun."
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"There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away"
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"He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal."
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"As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense."
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"Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea."
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"They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet."
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending."
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"As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven."
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"Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon"
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"An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision."
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"If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything."
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"To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature."
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"I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument."
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"England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe."
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"Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing."
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"The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own."
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"If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud."
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"Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon."
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