The Blade of the Rose
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Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. (“The pristine rose remains only in name; we hold but its naked name.”) In Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, the rose symbolizes fleeting beauty and unattainable truths.
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