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sparklemiranda

5 years ago

Perfect

“These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones, they are for what they are; they exist today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every movement of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst. its whole life acts, in the full blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), From “Self-Reliance”