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#152

“For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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#153

“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

tags: death, life, stars

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#154

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”
― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

tags: gaze, human, stars

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#155

“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

tags: 165, meaning, stars, stories

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#156

“There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

tags: change, city, night, reality, stars

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#157

“There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#158

“The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

tags: dream, dreaming, flames, high, look-down, look-up, plot, plotting, sights, staring, stars

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#159

“Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

tags: stars

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#160

“It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: freedom, huck-finn, loveliness, raft, self-worth, stars, universe

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#161

“One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

tags: stars

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#162

“Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any minute that flower could accidentally be eaten up by a little lamb, isn't that important? If a person loves a flower that is the only one of its kind on all the millions and millions of stars, then gazing at the night sky is enough to make him happy. He says to himself "My flower is out there somewhere." But if the lamb eats the flower, then suddenly it's as if all the stars had stopped shining. Isn't that important?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: flower, stars, the-little-prince

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#163

“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: stars, sun

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#164

“Even the most
beautiful
of the stars
are taken
for granted
night after
night.”
― Veronika Jensen

tags: broken-heart, granted, love, stars

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#165

“The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

tags: love, stars, sun

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#166

“Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.”
― Aberjhani, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

tags: calligraphy, classic-quotes, faith, grace, hope, ignorance, inspiration, marvelousmonday-quotes, mercy, nanowrimo, national-novel-writing-month, peace, peacism, quotes-by-famous-authors, quotes-by-famous-poets, silver, souls, spirituality, stars, survival, terrorism, the-soul, war, world-suicide-prevention-day

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#167

“When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

tags: allegory, french, sand, sky, stars, wind

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#168

“When the boy was grown and out hunting, the goddess brought Callisto before him, intending to have him shoot his mother, in ignorance, of course. But Zeus snatched the bear away and placed her among the stars, where she is called the Great Bear. Later, her son Arcas was placed beside her and called the Lesser Bear. Hera, enraged at this honor to her rival, persuaded the God of the Sea to forbid the Bears to descend into the ocean like the other stars. They alone of the constellations never set below the horizon.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

tags: constellations, greek-mythology, jealousy, mythology, rivalry, stars

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#169

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

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#170

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: inspirational, values

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#171

“And the stars: the sky gets crowded at night, and it is a bit like watching a clock, seeing the constellations slide across the sky. It’s comforting to know that they’ll show up, however bad the day has been, however crook things get. That used to help in France. It put things into perspective—the stars had been around since before there were people. They just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that’s fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening. Summer, winter, storm, fine weather. People can rely on it.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

tags: constancy, life-philosophy, stars

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#172

“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care...”
― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War

tags: alex-scarrow, eternal-war, normality, stars, war

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#173

“Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.”
― Heinz R. Pagels

tags: stars

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#174

“AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY

For every star in the sky
Someone is holding his ground.”
― Kenneth Koch, The Collected Poems

tags: integrity, stars

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#175

“It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

tags: black, bleeding, blue, dark, day, dying, mornig, stars, time

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#176

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: heart, heartbroken

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#177

“It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: feelings, flattery, love, secret-love, sense, unavowed-love, vulnerability, women

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#178

“I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

tags: deluded, iris-murdoch, love, secret-love, the-sea-the-sea, unrequited-love

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#179

“I didn’t love you to seek revenge.
I didn’t love you out of loneliness or unhappiness.
I didn’t love you for any of the misguided reasons that time might convince you I did.
I just loved you because you’re you.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: always-yours, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you

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#180

“Everybody wants their own little place in the world. And maybe mine is here… Loving you from a distance…”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: beautiful, beautiful-quote-breakup, breakup-quote, devotion, eternal-love, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, forever, from-a-distance, heartbreak, heartbreaking, heartbroken-quotes, individuality, lost-love, love, love-quote, love-quotes-and-sayings, loyalty, my-place, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, sad, sad-quote, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, true-love, unrequited, unrequited-love, wants-and-needs

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#181

“It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…
But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….
….. and you’ll erase me completely.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: always-yours, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, left-behind, letting-go, letting-go-quotes, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, memories, memories-quotes, memory, memory-quote, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, reminders, reminisce, reminiscence, reminiscing, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, the-past, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you

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