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“The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.”

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a French writer, poet, and aviator, renowned for his novella 'The Little Prince,' which has been translated into over 300 languages and remains one of the most beloved books worldwide. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the French Air Force, and his mysterious disappearance over the Mediterranean Sea in 1944 remains unsolved. more

“English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.”

Passion Sweet Flower Huge Cold Bed Garden Crosses Window Fruit Warm Kitchen Abandon Slides Neat Orderly Carrots Lotuses Poppies Sweating Orchids

Author:Alan Coren

“(After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving: I wonder if that choice has anything to do with genetics. ... I want to take mine home and look after them so that they live for days. I might spray the leaves, and make sure they sit in an easterly window, and keep them out of the direct sun.”

Ifs Want Years Looks Littles Home Might Mother Choices Wonder Laughing Sun Mines Flower Birth Direct Window Meetings Bunch Coincidence Genetics Spray Orchids Live For The Day Birth Mother

Author:Jackie Kay

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