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“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: flowers, love, roses

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#3

“If flowers were boogers, I'd pick a few big ones and flick them on your grave.”
― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

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#4

“since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

tags: fear, flowers, poetry

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#5

“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: acceptance, flowers, gardening, love, weeds

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#6

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: flowers, nature

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#7

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: flowers, sun

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#8

“What a lovely thing a rose is!"

He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: deduction, flowers, goodness, hope, nature, providence, reason, religion, roses

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#9

“Flowers and fear are a lot alike. For one, flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two, I’m currently trying to grow both in my garden.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

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#10

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
― susan polis schutz

tags: dance, flowers, happiness, happy, joy, summer, sun, wild

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#11

“He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.”
― Gemma Malley, The Declaration

tags: anna, butterflies, butterfly, death, flower, flowers, gemma, life, love, malley, peter, the-declaration

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#12

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

tags: flowers, violets

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#13

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe

tags: flowers, friendship, inspirational

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#14

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
― Claude Monet

tags: flowers

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#15

“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: beauty, butterflies, flowers, grace

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#16

“who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
( and if you and I should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves”
― e.e. cummings, Collected Poems

tags: astronomy, balloon, flowers, hot-air-balloon, luna, lunar, moonlight, spring

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#17

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: flowers, joy

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#18

“Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: death, flowers

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#19

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.

“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, death, desire, dying, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, flowers, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, lilies, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth-beauty, truth-love-hope, urban-fantasy

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#20

“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

tags: abundance, alone, aloneness, company, flowers, friends, joy, life, pleasure, pleasures, possessions, roman-payne, solitude, summer

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#21

“Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

tags: butterflies, flowers

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#22

“I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, Don't Die, My Love

tags: flowers, julie, luke, true-love

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#23

“Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: flowers, friends, garden, inspirational, motivational, weeds

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#24

“The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, Don't Die, My Love

tags: flowers, love, luke

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#26

“Feathers blowing in the wind is no more a bird than a pile of crumpled up receipts from champagne, chocolate, and flower purchases is a true indication that a man loves a woman. ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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#27

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
― Colette

tags: collapse, curiosity, flowers, friendly, friends, grief, letter, love, smile, tears

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#28

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

tags: crying, emotion, emotions, flowers, fruit, growing, nature, sadness, sunlight, tears, trees, water

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#29

“I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me “F*** you.” Then I’ll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I’ll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

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#30

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: flowers, laughter

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#31

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: beautiful, flowers, midnight

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#32

“For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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