The Flower and the forest…

“People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of Love. Anyone who tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon… That is what the forest taught me.That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you…I will always remember now that love is liberty. I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain in the windows, and all the things we’ll always have because we cannot posses them.”

An Excerpt from Brida by Paulo Coelho

 

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