“Gather today the roses of life.”
Cueillez dès aujourd'hui les roses de la vie.
"Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle," l. 14.
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a vague trembling of stars
and all roses are
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Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
“O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.”
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,<br/>et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
Ausonius (310–395) poet
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,
et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 49; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.
“Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet