"How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!"
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"The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."
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"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere."
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"Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty."
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"Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children."
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"Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun."
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"When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!""
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"I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living."
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"They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!"
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"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
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"I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun."
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"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
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"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."
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"You can still die when the sun is shining."
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"Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God."
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"Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun."
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"Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons."
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"When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun."
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"Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle."
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"We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth."
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