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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1970

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1970

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti, Jiddu. Think on These Things. Harper & Row, 1964, ch. 20.

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