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Algernon Charles Swinburne1 quote
I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep;
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow and reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep. — Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1866Giovanni Verga1 quote
The heart gets tired too; and it falls apart bit by bit, like an old cloth wears out in the wash. — Giovanni Verga · 1881W.B. Yeats1 quote
O, who could have foretold
That the heart grows old? — W.B. Yeats · 1919