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To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night. - Paul

To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night. – Paul Simon, “A Poem on the Underground Wall”

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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby. – Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. – Henry Beston

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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 envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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