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A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.
Angelus Silesius
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Angelus Silesius
Age: 52 †
Born: 1624
Born: December 1
Died: 1677
Died: June 9
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Breslau
Johann Scheffler
Johann Angelus Silesius
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Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.
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God never does withdraw His works come to no halt If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.
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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
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Time is of your own making Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
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