“It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963Related quotes
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