"Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity."
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"There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky..."
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"Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us."
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"Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky."
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"I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude."
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"We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules."
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"My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man."
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"When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?"
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"Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . ."
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"The sky was pure opal now."
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"You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."
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"Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky."
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"It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man."
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"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house."
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"This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one."
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"Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower."
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"Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless"
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"All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all. The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed. I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones. The broken carrot noses."
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"A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out."
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"I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world."
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