“A month passes by and brings another month.
Easy to guess what lies ahead:
all of yesterday’s boredom.
And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.”

—  Constantine P. Cavafy

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Collected Poems (1992)

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Greek poet 1863–1933

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