"Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine."
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"Sometimes the scariest things in life aren’t the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn’t want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses."
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"Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids."
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"In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy."
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"It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm."
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"Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart"
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"I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there."
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"Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary."
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"He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba."
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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."
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"I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die."
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"I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market."
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"For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb."
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"The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace."
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"We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce."
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"I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime."
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"dear kiara, The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose shows love. And the rosery is the only thing i own that i care for, its yours i'm yours C"
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"Still more labyrinthine buds the rose."
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"Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose."
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"You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose."
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