"I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all."
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"He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."
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"So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up."
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"Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood."
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"It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky."
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"Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky."
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"Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky."
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"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."
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"I know simply that the sky will last longer than I."
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"If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable."
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"Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is."
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"The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies."
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"Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars."
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"I would not think to touch the sky with two arms"
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"The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all."
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"I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved."
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"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
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"It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender"
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"time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough"
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"Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned."
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