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“Thus the sun which possesses light perfectly, can shine by itself; whereas the moon which has the nature of light imperfectly, sheds only a borrowed light.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
“Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room for stains, not the stars.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“Go to the moon — you selfish dreamer!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“We’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We’re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“Despite his open and acute mind, and though he has at his fingertips the motions attributed to the earth, he has nevertheless lent his ear and his assent to the moon's dominion over the waters, to occult properties, and to such puerilities.” Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
“She didn’t quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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