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“If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."”

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Love winter when the plant says nothing.

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When I haven't any blue I use red.

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Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

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Orange is my favorite color overall.

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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

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