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'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
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Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
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In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
The worms of memories to work you woe.Source: Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki -
North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
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When I was at my height on TV, I was always busy - rehearsing, practising my impressions, learning new material. When that faded, I had to find another way to be creative. Houses were something to do instead. They saved me.
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