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«Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| Keywords:
arranged, arranges, badly, comparisons, constellation, constellations, right and wrong
«His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.»
Author: Elias Canetti
(Novelist, Playwright)
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arranged, arranges, constellation, constellations, not yet
«October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.»
Author: Hal Borland
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constellation, constellations, enduring, hills, horizon, in sight, leaf, October, once again, once more, wider
«?You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer trace constellations. You?ll care only about the darkness and you?ll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you?re some kind of indispensable universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you?ll be afraid to look away, you?ll be afraid to sleep.?»
Author: Mark Danielewski
| About:
Darkness
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appointed, at bay, bay, constellation, constellations, evening star, indispensable, in vain, iridescent, keep an eye on, sentinel, sentinels, the darkness, trace
«She would give them order. She would create constellations»
«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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absolutely, backward, backward and forward, cells, childish, chronologically, constellation, constellations, dimension, fix, fixes, fixing, fix it, fix up, forward, layered, layers, made-up, mature, matured, matures, maturing, mingle, mingles, mingling, not absolutely, partially, pull, realm, relative, The Cell, unevenly
«My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.»
Author: Rachel Carson
| Keywords:
blazing, companion, constellation, constellations, flowing, horizon, milky, Milky Way, misty, patterns, The Milky Way
«A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.»
Author: William Gibson
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abstracted, Banks, clustered, clusters, computer system, constellation, constellations, graphic, graphics, ranged, recede, recedes, receding, representation
«For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.»
«The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
constellation, constellations, nearer, suffice, sufficient, very well
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