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You won't find a new country, won't find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You'll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighbourhoods, turn grey in these same houses.
You'll always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there's no ship for you, there's no road.
Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.

Constantine P. Cavafy

It will be a great relief when a window opens.
But the windows are not there to be found —
or at least I cannot find them. And perhaps
it is better that I don't find them.
Perhaps the light will prove another tyranny.
Who knows what new things it will expose?

Constantine P. Cavafy

New places you will not find, you will not find another sea
The city will follow you.
You will roam the same streets.

Constantine P. Cavafy

You'll not find another place, you'll not find another sea. This city is going to follow you.

Constantine P. Cavafy

From all I did and all I said
let no one try to find out who I was.

Constantine P. Cavafy