She said to herself: when once the onslaught......
of ugliness became completely unbearable,she would
go to a florist and buy a forget-me-not,a single
forget-me-not , a slender stalk with miniature
.blue flower
She would go out into the street holding the flower
before her eyes, staring at it tenaciously, so as to
see only that single beautiful blue point , to see
it as the last thing she wanted to preserve for herself
.from a world she had ceased to love
IMMORTALITY - MILAN KUNDERA