White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like white flakes. Rain squalls blow past like gray slanting sails, and blue gaps open in the sky. The air brightens. A cold silvery evening. The moon is overhead, and down below, in the water; and all around it-a wide frame of old, hammered, scaly silver. Etched on the silver-silent black fishing boats, tiny black needles of masts, little black men casting invisible lines into the silver. And the only sounds are the occasional plashing of an oar, the creaking of an oarlock, the springlike leap and flip-flop of a fish. ("The North") . Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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E.e. Cummings
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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William Shakespeare
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
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Neil Armstrong
In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.
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Amit Kalantri
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been...
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Bertrand Russell
More Quotes By Yevgeny Zamyatin
You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.
Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth...
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
