"There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness."
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"If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize."
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"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
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"Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished."
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"...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that."
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"It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment"
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"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
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"To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes."
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"It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road."
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"Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise."
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"We are the Sun with all the different kinds of Light."
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"The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?"
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"We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass."
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"Every star may be a sun to someone."
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"Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun."
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"The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled."
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"The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence."
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"Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun."
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"Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti."
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"We live in an old chaos of the sun."
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