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| (via Garance Dore). | 
"Is this that world? These the delights,
The love, the labors, the events,
Of which once we so fondly spoke? 
And must all  mortals wear this weary yoke?
Ah, when the truth appeared,
It better seemed to die! 
Cold death, the barren tomb, didst thou prefer 
To harsh reality."
-Leopardi 
