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

Flowers, Error, Reason, Senses

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

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"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

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"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist

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"Flowers grow out of dark moments."

Corita Kent, American Artist

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"If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!""

Delta Burke, American Actress

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"Let a hundred flowers bloom."

Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader

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"Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."

Nicholas Culpeper, English Scientist

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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."

Nicholas Culpeper, English Scientist

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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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"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

"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."

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"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

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

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"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

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

Religion

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

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

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"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