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“When cultivating your garden, keep the soil healthy with encroachers. The most redolent flowers grow over graves.”
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
“...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.”
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“The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.”
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
“It is a known fact that pain and pleasure are the two most basic elements of life. But the secret is to simplify that fact.”
― The Prince Of Plungers
― The Prince Of Plungers
“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
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