"The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth."
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"Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star"
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"I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one."
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"I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."
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"How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see."
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"It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky."
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"Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day."
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"All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me."
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"I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky."
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"Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere."
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"Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape."
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"The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles."
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"I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak."
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"To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores"
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"The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags."
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"Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent."
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"I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel."
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"Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?"
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"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
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"The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble."
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