“The breath coming out of your chest
Turns into a dark cloud
And stands like a wall
In front of your eyes”
Cited in: Newsweek (2009). Vol. 153-154. p. 548
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Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

As quoted in "“Fostering Leadership”: online talk with Chulpan Khamatova" in Vladimir Potanin Foundation (7 August 2020) https://www.fondpotanin.ru/en/press/news/fostering-leadership-online-talk-with-chulpan-khamatova/

Sam Harris, “Religion, Terror, and Self-Transcendence.” The Ethical Culture Society and the Center for Inquiry, New York, NY, November 16, 2005 (broadcast on CSPAN-2)
2000s

“Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye
Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.”
Arcturus (To Edgar Allan Poe).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)