“The flowers you gave me are rotting
And still I refuse to throw them away”
Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist
The Flowers
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“In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.”
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto, book Hagakure
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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