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“Flower-shops never have shutters. Nobody ever thinks of stealing flowers.” Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream
“Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“Flowers are weak creatures. They are naïve. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons .” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life. How closely, in their abundance, are they pressed one against another; until lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour, as to count the...” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
“To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on...” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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