“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.”
The Arrow of Gold http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/argld10h.htm (1919), Author's note,
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“Our charms depart all on their own, so pluck the bloom.
For if you don't, it meets a wasted doom.”
Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona; carpite florem,
Qui, nisi carptus erit, turpiter ipse cadet.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Book III, lines 79–80 (tr. Len Krisak)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Donald Davidson (1893–1968) American poet, essayist, critic and author
The Last Charge
“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”
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Lady Bracknell, Act I.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Context: I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
“If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath