Addition

Portrait of Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863–1933

I do not question whether I am happy or unhappy. Yet there is one thing that I keep gladly in mind -- that in the great addition (their addition that I abhor) that has so many numbers, I am not one of the many units there. In the final sum I have not been calculated. And this joy suffices me.

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