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“Across the sea of space the stars are other suns.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“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
“We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light...” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions;” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in...” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are abloom with flowers.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
“The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You—only you—will have stars that can laugh!” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
“the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?” Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
“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
“When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“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
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.” Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“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
“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
“I have . . . my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“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
“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. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed...” Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star . . . It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
“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
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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