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The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.

— Malcolm de Chazal

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The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.

A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.

Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.

I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.

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