Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
– Wallace Stegner
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- Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt. – Idries Shah
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- Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being. – James Baldwin
- Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. -˜It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. -˜What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD? – Erin Bow
- Her joyful spirit would bring laughter and happiness to anyone in her life with the same natural ease that a rose blooms and sheds its perfume. – Aleksandra Layland
- Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature – Val Uchendu
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- But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop? – Vladimir Nabokov
- Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it’s teaching you stuff, it’s not being wasted. – Danny Gregory
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- People desire for spices in their life I want some sugar. – Amit Abraham
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- Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from… not to create a past for you to be stuck in. – Steve Maraboli
- Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from… not to create a past for you to be stuck in. – Steve Maraboli
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