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"Flowers exemplify the fragile balance between beauty and ple..." — Wayne M. Martin

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Flowers exemplify the fragile balance between beauty and pleasure on the one hand and decay on the other: both a symbol and instance of beauty, they are always already dying at the peak of their bloom.

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This is from the essay "Bubbles and Skulls: The Phenomenology of Self-Consciosuness in Dutch Stil-Life Painting."