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Letter "S" » sentinels
«?You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer trace constellations. You?ll care only about the darkness and you?ll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you?re some kind of indispensable universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you?ll be afraid to look away, you?ll be afraid to sleep.?»
Author: Mark Danielewski
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About:
Darkness
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Keywords:
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the darkness,
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«Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.»
«The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.»
«We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty»
«It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.»
«Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.»
«She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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«Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.»
«The marble columns will stand tall like silent sentinels and the busts of the great Americans which line the upper wall will study our every move-sometimes approvingly, more often than not with raised eyebrows. As always.»
«The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel»