Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?... Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?‘ The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’- Tithonus Alfred Tennyson
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How he who has no more to give, can bestow it all on others, is a question that has vexed poets and philosophers for generations. There are two ways in which one can give up everything, says Homer in The Odyssey . First, by dying. Second, by giving up on life.

The latter is the fate of Tithonus , a friend of Zeus who had been granted immortality but was stripped of his youth when he died. His friends mourn the loss of him forever, while he sits in his house “all alone” while his brothers celebrate each day for eternity.

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