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«If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.»
«The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.»
«All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: like so, pear, pears, treason, veins
«How do you like them? like a pear, a lemon, a la Montgolfier, half an apple, or a cantaloupe? Go and choose, don't be embarrassed.»
«Here we go round the prickly pear / At five o'clock in the morning.»
«Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.»