"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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"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."

Henry Walter Bates, English Environmentalist

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"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

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"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

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"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon."

Jean Ingelow, English Poet

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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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"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

Ray Davies, English Musician

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"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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

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

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

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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."

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

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"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."

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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."

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

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