#flowers

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ↗

— Beverley Nichols

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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#believe #clover #dream #entwined #flowers

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. ↗

— Richard Powers

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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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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

#beast #bird #flowers #man #marvel

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

#double #flowers #funeral #house #i

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up. ↗

— Ken Hill

#dry #flowers #like #minds #sit

Flowers are happy things. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#happy #happy things #things

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. ↗

— Albert Camus

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