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- ❝ we have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people's names. ❞
- ❝ when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun. ❞ ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- ❝ what is love? i have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. his hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. ❞ ― Victor Hugo
- ❝ the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. we are made of starstuff. ❞ ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- ❝ all we ever see of stars are their old photographs. ❞ ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
- ❝ not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. and they're watching me. ❞ ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- ❝ i like the stars. it's the illusion of permanence, i think. i mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. but from here, i can pretend... i can pretend that things last. i can pretend that lives last longer than moments. gods come, and gods go. mortals flicker and flash and fade. worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. but i can pretend... ❞ ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
- ❝ a philosopher once asked, "are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" pointless, really... "do the stars gaze back?" now, that's a question. ❞ ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
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