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ORANGE SUNSET SOUL SAMPLINGS NOW

Orange sunset at the lake, by Sorin Mutu.

Photo: by Sorin Mutu. Orange sunset at the lake.

The day starts with the rosy orange of dawn. It ends as the orange settles in a sultry spread, offering a come-hither into the night. The orange of sunset seeps deep into our souls, even as it drains from the sky’s cup, even as it descends into black.

“An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“How strange this fear of death is. We are never frightened at a sunset”

― George MacDonald

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

― Rabindranath Tagore

“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.”

― Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.”

― Mia Kirshner, I Live Here

“Sunset is the opening music of the night.”

― Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don’t want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it!”

― Mehmet Murat Ildan

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