I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease …

Charlotte Bronte
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I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2016). Villette, p.327, Xist Publishing
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