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You are only seeing the part illuminated by the sun. You see varying degrees of the moon depending on your viewing angle. So in simple terms when you see a half moon if you drew a line between you and the moon and another between you and the sun, the angle of intersection would be 90 degrees. When it's a full moon it would be 180 degrees when a new moon 0 degrees.
The moon is in fact, extremely small, its size is just an illusion. See here
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