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I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I stu

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – Derek Walcott

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott

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Beauty
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The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Imagination
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. – Plato

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When I heard the learn – Walt Whitman

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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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These earthly godfathers of Heavens lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are. – William Shakespeare

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