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“Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.”

Humans Moving Stars Bears Silly Pity Banging Tubs

Book:By Nightfall: A Novel

Source: By Nightfall: A Novel

“La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.”

Humans Moving Stars Bears Speech Beats Longing Pity Tunes Cracked Parole Kettles

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!”

Men Firsts Looks Littles Has Beens Stills Eye Young Courses Stars Space Clear Records Generations Tears Remains Shining Silent Pity Serene Shepherds Noisy Sirius Orion

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?”

Looks Heaven Stars Sky Cold Pity Look Up Luminous Insensitive

Author:I. L. Peretz