“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126
“Flowers are immortal. You cut them in autumn and they grow again in spring—somewhere.”
— Halldór Laxness, book The Atom Station
the organist
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
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