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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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