<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358687" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before Time Altered Them</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were full of sadness at their parting.<br>That wasn't what they themselves wanted: it was circumstances.<br>The need to earn a living forced one of them<br>to go far away—New York or Canada.<br>The love they felt wasn't, of course, what it once had been;<br>the attraction between them had gradually diminished,<br>the attraction had diminished a great deal.<br>But to be separated, that wasn't what they themselves wanted.<br>It was circumstances. Or maybe Fate<br>appeared as an artist and parted them now,<br>before their feeling died out completely, before Time altered them:<br>the one seeming to remain for the other always what he was,<br>the exquisite young man of twenty-four.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358687" data-title="Before Time Altered Them de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="They were full of sadness at their parting. That wasn't what they themselves wanted: it was circumstances. The need to earn a living forced one of them to go far away—New York or Canada. The love they felt wasn't, of course, what it once had bee..."></div> </div> </div>

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