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«From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.»
Author: Edvard Munch (Painter) | Keywords: rots, rotted, rotting
«He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.»
«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
«His face looked as if it had rotted when it should have matured»
Author: Liza Cody | Keywords: matured, rotted, rotting
«Do you think my mind is maturing late,Or simply rotted early?»
Author: Ogden Nash (Writer) | Keywords: maturing, rots, rotted, rotting
«If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people / including me / would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.»
«Fame is rot; daughters are the thing»
«Cheating is eating a rotting carcass.»
«He who shall teach the child to doubt / The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: rotting
«'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale»

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