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"Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this."
petrarch may have been talking about the apocolypse that was the black death, but his words resonate now, nearly seven hundred years later. I hope I'm not the only one who got chills from reading that?
petrarch may have been talking about the apocolypse that was the black death, but his words resonate now, nearly seven hundred years later. I hope I'm not the only one who got chills from reading that?