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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."
"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."
"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."
"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized."
"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?"
"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style."
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."
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