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When you reach for a star
Only angels are there
And it's not very far
Just a step on a stair…

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Artists shouldn't be made famous.

There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.

Now all the shows are over, it's pretty difficult to explain how I feel about it all.

Sweet and gentle and sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers…

Only tragedy allows the release of love and grief never normally seen…

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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