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"Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."
"Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns."
"You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."
"The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit."
"There is ripe fruit over your head."
"Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men."
"Anger is the fruit of rotten roots."
"Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted."
"When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this."
"Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof."
"Liberty is a slow fruit."
"I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me"
"The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you."
"The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day."
"What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning."
"He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit."
"Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe."
"The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit."
"Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action."
"In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening."
