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So appreciate your vigor in the days of your youth, before those days of sorrow come and those years arrive of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before sun and light and moon and…
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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm
that draws to you life’s greatest joys.
Rounded like a bow, that brow,
or like a moon in half eclipse.
Your eye, beside it, is a pool,
all sparkle, like a…
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Joseph Tsarfati
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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Early 16th Century
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He was a great entertainer but going insane. The pathologic element could be missed only by those who were laughing too hard to look. Humboldt, that grand erratic handsome person with his wide blond…
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Saul Bellow
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1973
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You, my dear, will survive me and remember.
How could it be otherwise?
—From a letter
Old people? What can you write about old people?
They barely feel anything!
—From a conversation
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Dina Kalinovskaya
Date:
1980
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…He heard a thud in the living room, heard a thud, and couldn’t identify it: “Are you all right?” he called.
“I was just being careless,” M called back. “I’m all right.”
“You fell. Poor kid. What’d…
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Henry Roth
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Albuquerque, United States of America
Date:
1994
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Greetings 53 year old Tristess, you must have guessed
back then, before youth and old men in fancy cars
turned their backs on you,
how all this would vanish, only Mitterand and the Citroën remain;
yo…
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Natan Zach
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1988
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How sweet is the light, what a delight for the eyes to behold the sun! Even if a man lives many years, let him enjoy himself in all of them, remembering how many the days of darkness are…
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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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King:
What is this dream, which I have dreamt?
Who, indeed…
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Joseph Penso de la Vega
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1668
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Why, death, do you tarry so?
Why does your chariot come so slow?
Old age has prepared for me
Every illness and complaint.
What good are my hundred years?
If such pain I undergo—
Why, death…
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Jacob Frances
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
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17th Century
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Eva and Olivia. A table set for tea.
Eva:Oh, Olivia, this dampness is terrible, every bone in my body aches. (Olivia lights a cigarette.) That is an awful habit.
Olivia:(Gleefully.) Ye…
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Richard Greenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1990