"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."
"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."
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Source: Jean Paul (1892). “Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. (A Genuine Thorn Piece)”
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