<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358697" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Days Of 1896</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He became completely degraded. His erotic tendency,<br>condemned and strictly forbidden<br>(but innate for all that) , was the cause of it:<br>society was totally prudish.<br>He gradually lost what little money he had,<br>then his social standing, then his reputation.<br>Nearly thirty, he had never worked a full year—<br>at least not at a legitimate job.<br>Sometimes he earned enough to get by<br>acting the go-between in deals considered shameful.<br>He ended up the type likely to compromise you thoroughly<br>if you were seen around with him often.<br> <br>But this isn't the whole story—that would not be fair.<br>The memory of his beauty deserves better.<br>There is another angle; seen from that<br>he appears attractive, appears<br>a simple, genuine child of love,<br>without hesitation putting,<br>above his honor and reputation,<br>the pure sensuality of his pure flesh.<br> <br>Above his reputation? But society,<br>prudish and stupid, had it wrong.</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=358697" data-title="Days Of 1896 de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="He became completely degraded. His erotic tendency, condemned and strictly forbidden (but innate for all that) , was the cause of it: society was totally prudish. He gradually lost what little money he had, then his social standing, then his reput..."></div> </div> </div>

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