"And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance."
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"Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade."
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"That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away."
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"I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?"
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"But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset."
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"October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight."
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"We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat."
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"These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun."
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"A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window."
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"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."
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"In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different."
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"The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."
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"My mom said there's a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty."
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"The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom."
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"We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners."
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"After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset."
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"I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset."
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"You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets."
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"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."
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