“It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
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“I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy.”
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"Ramal que para, ramal que cierra." <br class="br"> Ramal que cierra, pueblo que muere http://edant.clarin.com/diario/1997/05/25/i-01602e.htm.
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Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 3
Context: The trumpeters, ranging themselves side by side in order, blow one terrific blast: —
'THE TRUTH!
at which Orlando woke.
He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed Truth! Truth! Truth! we have no choice left but confess — he was a woman.
