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• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
• A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but…
• If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year,…
• I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are…
• A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
• Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
• A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
• To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it…
• You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
• An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest.…
• The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring.…
• There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its…

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