Branches Quote by Louis de Bernieres

“We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.” quote by Louis de Bernieres — Download Open image

“We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.”

Louis de Bernieres

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Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

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God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

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Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar…

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The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

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We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

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“Pelagia put her hands on her hips, taking advantage of the superiority implicit in the fact that she was standing and he lying down.”

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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles…

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We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

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