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is not seen not because the ―roving foot‖ would ―crush‖; nor that ―the busy hand‖ would ―provoke a tear‖; nor because of the ―vulgar eye,‖ but because of the fact that the human being has the ability to foresee his death. Whereas, the flower, with its happy ignorance, lacks this consciousness and is completely unaware of its doom. Its innocence left it happier than the foreseeing human beings. Unfortunately, the human beings are quite unwilling to refuse this knowledge and that arouses all their sufferings.
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