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Letter "C" » constellation
«I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.»
«His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.»
Author: Elias Canetti
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
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
| Keywords:
appointed, at bay, bay, constellation, constellations, evening star, indispensable, in vain, iridescent, keep an eye on, sentinel, sentinels, the darkness, trace
«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
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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.»
«BERENICE'S HAIR, n. A constellation (_Coma Berenices_) named in honor of one who sacrificed her hair to save her husband.Her locks an ancient lady gave Her loving husband's life to save; And men --they honored so the dame -- Upon some stars bestowed her name.But to our modern married fair, Who'd give their lords to save their hair, No stellar recognition's given. There are not stars enough in heaven. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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An Ancient, bestowed, constellation, dame, honored, locks, sacrificed, stellar
«Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
alter, altered, aspects, constellation, hitherto, illuminate, remained, unrecognizable
«Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Freedom
| Keywords:
bright, constellation, corpus, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, habeas corpus, impartially, juries, press, principles, protection, protections, selected, Selecting, selects, the press, trial
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