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"I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect."
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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."
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"I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco."
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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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"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
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"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers."
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"I like perfume and flowers."
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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
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"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."
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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."
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"I don't think I do have a soul."
Soul

"I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world."
Life

"I started writing when I was about thirteen."
Writing

"I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense."
God

"At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you."
Age

"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."
Flowers

"In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid."
Mind

"'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival."
Survival
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