<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358796" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Since Nine O'Clock</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Half past twelve. Time has gone by quickly <br>since nine o'clock when I lit the lamp <br>and sat down here. I've been sitting without reading, <br>without speaking. Completely alone in the house, <br>whom could I talk to? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since nine o'clock when I lit the lamp <br>the shade of my young body <br>has come to haunt me, to remind me <br>of shut scented rooms, <br>of past sensual pleasure - what daring pleasure. <br>And it's also brought back to me <br>streets now unrecognizable, <br>bustling night clubs now closed, <br>theatres and cafes no longer here. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shade of my young body <br>also brought back the things that make us sad: <br>family grief, separations, <br>the feelings of my own people, feelings <br>of the dead so little acknowledged. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Half past twelve. How the time has gone by. <br>Half past twelve. How the years have gone by.</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=358796" data-title="Since Nine O'Clock de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="Half past twelve. Time has gone by quickly since nine o'clock when I lit the lamp and sat down here. I've been sitting without reading, without speaking. Completely alone in the house, whom could I talk to? Since nine o'clock when I lit the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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