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"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."
Flowers

"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."
Nature

"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."
Thought

"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized."
Religion

"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."
Life

"The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later."
Genius

"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?"
Knowledge

"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."
Imagination

"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."
Dream

"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."
Love
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"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."
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"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."
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"Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?"
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"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."
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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
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"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
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"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
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"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."
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"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."
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"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."
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