"Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work……" — Constantine Peter Cavafy
"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 graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these."
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Constantine Peter Cavafy
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13 Quotes by Constantine Peter Cavafy
Constantine Peter Cavafy has 13 quotes on this site.
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When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of…
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What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
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Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old…
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Arriving there is what you are destined for
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Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid…
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My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
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Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least…
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And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience,…
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Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days…
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to certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No...
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And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not…
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Body, remember not only how much you were loved Not only the beds you lay on, But also those desires…
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At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library…
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While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea],…
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There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is…
— Jan Morris
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A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an…
— David Ben-Gurion
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The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking…
— Brewster Kahle
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria
— Philo
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We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of…
— Ismail Serageldin
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We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there…
— Eusebius
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When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge…
— Steve Berry
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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to…
— Alexander Kluge
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Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
— Marcus Garvey
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