While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the … - Karel Capek

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This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

Karel Capek

While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year. . . . Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack. . . . It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.

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