"Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it."

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Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1997). “The Complete Fairy Tales”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

Jacob Grimm

#Rose Quotes #Tree Quotes #Said Quotes

“My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”
“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.165, Routledge
“It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true...”
“You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.”
“37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.”
“Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.”
“In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.”

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