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    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: hope, inevitability, spring
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    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg
    tags: nature, spring
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring
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    A.A. Milne
    “She turned to the sunlight
        And shook her yellow head,
    And whispered to her neighbor:
        "Winter is dead.”
    ― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
    tags: daffodils, spring, sunlight, winter
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: earth, poems-of-blood-and-passion, spring
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
    tags: hope, poetry, spring, winter
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective
    tags: restlessness, spring
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
    tags: autumn, old, spring
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: mad-hatter, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: queen-of-hearts
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice: How long is forever?
    White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice-in-wonderland
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
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    Lewis Carroll
    “The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    “You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
    ― Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton
    tags: fantasy, movie-quote
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    Lewis Carroll
    “How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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    William Shakespeare
    “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)”
    ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
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  • #25
    “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?”
    ― Neltje Blanchan
    tags: essence, spring
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    Margaret Wise Brown
    “When the groundhog casts his shadow
    And the small birds sing
    And the pussywillows happen
    And the sun shines warm
    And when the peepers peep
    Then it is Spring”
    ― Margaret Wise Brown
    tags: groundhog, spring
    71 likes

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    Matsuo Bashō
    “Dead my old fine hopes
    And dry my dreaming but still...
    Iris, blue each spring”
    ― Shushiki, Japanese Haiku
    tags: haiku, hope, spring
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: spring
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    James Herriot
    “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
    ― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
    3375 likes



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