It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The concept of a flower that only blooms once in a thousand years is a wonderful thought. It may be very rare but it is inevitable. All things have a finite time and they will eventually be forgotten. So it is with the flowers that bloom only once in a thousand years.

In this quote, Murasaki Shikibu is telling us that as we go through life, we should not forget those things that were important to us. We should not let those things slip from our memory as we move on to new things.

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