Quotes with moonlight

  • A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
  • All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

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  • Oscar Wilde A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Robertson Davies A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Moonlight is sculpture.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
    The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853) 1838
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Emma Goldman Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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