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“A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.”
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“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
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“I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.”
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“... learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking ...”
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“You remember the man who said he had a little contrivance that shut the window and turned on the heat before he got up? It was called a wife.”
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“Time and space are only forms of thought.”
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“... you're not so damn Zen, after all; you're passive-aggressive. Somehow, we both mistook that for spirituality.”
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“... the cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.”