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Adolf HitlerIf you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

—  Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator

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La RochefoucauldNeither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

—  La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer

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Pablo PicassoSome painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

—  Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter

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Samuel BeckettThe sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

—  Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969

     (first phrase of “Murphy”)

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Eugene IonescoNothing is new under the sun even when there is no sun.

—  Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright

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Samuel BeckettThe sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

—  Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969

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Helen KellerKeep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

—  Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American writer

Bill VaughanThe same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

—  Bill Vaughan, 1915-1977, American journalist

Charles DickensIt was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

—  Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer

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Vincent Van GoghHere, under a stronger sun, I have found true what Pissarro said, and what Gauguin wrote to me as well, the simplicity, the lack of color, the gravity of great sunlight effects.

—  Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter

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Latin Quotes

Gaius PetroniusThe sun shines on everyone

Sol omnibus lucet.

—  Gaius Petronius, 1st cent. AD, Roman writer

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Without the sun I fall silent.

Sine sole sileo.

—  Medieval Sundial motto

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Ancient Greek

HeraclitusThe sun, as Heraclitus says, is new every day.

Ο ήλιος, καθάπερ ο Ηράκλειτος φησι, νέος εφ’ ημέρη εστίν.

—  Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

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Special Quotes

I count only sunny hours.

—  Sundial motto

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