cavafy-mausoleum

September 7, 2024

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Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown old

and they shut them, with tears, in a brilliant mausoleum,

with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet –

this is what desires resemble that have passed

without fulfillment; without any of them having achieved

a night of sensual delight, or a morning of brightness.

Thought:

“

One who sets his heart on cleansing himself from the uncleannesses that beset men’s souls … becomes clean as soon as he consents in his heart to shun those counsels and brings his soul into the waters of pure reason.

“

Maimonides

Christian Molenaar

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