“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
“The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.”
Daisy http://www.bartleby.com/103/26.html (1893), st. 10.
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