| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11110 |
| QUOTATION: | And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Constantine Cavafy (18631933), Greek poet. repr. In Collected Poems, ed. George Savidis, trans. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (1975). Waiting for the Barbarians, (1904). |
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