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The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness. – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. – Ojibwe Proverb

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The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. – Philip James Bailey

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When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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