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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. – Beverly Nichols

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Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression. – Beverly Nichols

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. – Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. – Sigmund Freud

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman

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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? – Maurice Maeterlinck

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