And if you can’t make your life as you’d wish it, try, at t… - Konstantinos P. Cavafy

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And if you can’t make your life as you’d wish it,
try, at the very least, to accomplish this much:
do not make it less than what it already is
by mixing too excessively with the masses,
by hanging around and endlessly chattering.

Don’t cheapen your life by parading it around,
hauling it everywhere and laying it out there
for the dreary humbug of familiars and fellowship,
until it comes to feel like a curious dead weight.

Konstantinos P. Cavafy

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Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes (Greek Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης) (29 April 1863 – 29 April 1933) was a Greek poet who is often ranked among most important literary figures of the 20th century.

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Native Name: Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης

Alternative Names: Constantine kavafy • C. P. Cavafis • Constantin Cavafy • K. P. Kavaphēs • K. P. Kavafis • C. P. Cavafy • Konstantine Kavafy • Constantinos Cavafis • Konstantino Kavafis • Constantino Kavafis • Konstantin Kavafis • Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis • Kōnstantinos Petrou Kavaphēs • Kavafis • Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs • Kawafis • Konstandinos Kavafis • Konstantinas Kavafis • C.P. Cavafy • Constantine Peter Cavafy • Kōnstantinos P. Kavafīs

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Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown old
and they shut them, with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum,
with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet — that is how desires look that have passed
without fulfillment; without one of them having achieved
a night of sensual delight, or a moonlit morn.

Of course many people will have much to say. We should listen. But we won't be deceived by words such as Indispensable, Unique, and Great. Someone else indispensable and unique and great can always be found at a moment's notice.

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