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No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. - Llewe

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. – Llewelyn Powys, quoted in Highs by Alex J. Packer

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The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. – Frederick L. Knowles

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Night

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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Night

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. – Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Night

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry

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