„i shall imagine lifeis not worth dying, if(and when)roses complaintheir beauties are in vainbut though mankind persuadesitself that every weed’sa rose, roses(you feelcertain)will only smile“

— E.E. Cummings

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„though mankind persuadesitself that every weed'sa rose, roses(you feelcertain) will only smile“
— E.E. Cummings
„Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson