Chuck PalahniukThese flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
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"Rotten in a couple hours" is an expression that doesn't mean what you think it means. It's not about the flowers' lifespan - although that could be true - it's about their moment in time. These flowers right now are perfect and they will only get more perfect once they're rotten. At this exact moment these flowers are cruelly short-lived, but they will stay beautiful until they become food for insects, fertilizer for plants or something else.
Source: Survivor
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