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“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions;” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1893

“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“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” - 1891

“Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“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” - 1916

“Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

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