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"Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream."
"She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose."
"Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses."
"We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall"
"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
"All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer."
"I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left."
"I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more."
"A rose trapped inside a fist."
"Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life."
"There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy."
"My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my lower neck and vertigo spun the room, burning tracings of desire to settle deep and low in me. I exhaled into the promise of more to come, calling it to me. I breathed it in like smoke, the rising passion starting a feeling of abandonment inside. I didn’t care anymore if it was right or wrong. It just was."
"Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it."
"The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise."
"You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too."
"Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans."
"We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed."
"I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?"
"I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years."
