Constantine Peter Cavafy Quotes

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• When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.
• What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
• Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the…
• Arriving there is what you are destined for
• Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where…
• My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
• Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.
• And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood…
• Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us,…
• to certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No...
• Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and…
• And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it...
• Body, remember not only how much you were loved Not only the beds you lay on, But also those desires glowing openly In eyes that…

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