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When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.
HAROLD PINTER, Party Time
- The sun goes down, and with him takes
- The coarseness of my poor attire;
- The fair moon mounts, and aye the flame
- Of Gypsy beauty blazes higher.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Romany Girl
Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun.
JOHN DEE, Monas Hieroglyphica
The moon, which was in her last quarter and was inclining all to one side, seemed fainting in the midst of space, so weak that she was unable to wane, forced to stay up yonder, seized and paralyzed by the severity of the weather. She shed a cold, mournful light over the world, that dying and wan light which she gives us every month, at the end of her period.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT, "Love: Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book"
- The moon has but one side of light and beauty,
- The other, steeped in never-ending night,
- Seems worse than dead, as in the harmony
- Of spheres, she cannot even echo. And
- She died they say, for love of her great brother,
- The glorious Sun, whom she may never reach,
- Condemned to be apart, for that great sin
- Of love.
CARMEN SYLVA, "In the Dark"
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