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Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a… — Haruki Murakami
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip… — Albert Camus
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free… — Mary Roach
So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant… — Garth Stein
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine? — John Updike
And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid… — Edgar Allan Poe
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where… — Joan Didion
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity… — Bell Hooks
Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could… — Janet Frame
There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance. Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, “Booga-wooga!” At least Eddie laughed. Adrian… — J R Ward
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the… — Terry Pratchett
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more… — Marcel Proust
And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would… — Vladimir Nabokov
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,… — Martin Amis
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with… — Michael Parenti
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it… — James Joyce
How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question… — Janet Fitch
wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise. — William Shakespeare
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast. — Joseph Conrad
The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's… — Steven Moffat
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the… — Tessa Dare

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