Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.
OMAR KHAYYAMThe unbeliever knows his Koran best.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss’d Of the Two Worlds so wisely – they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
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The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.
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Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.
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Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.
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You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
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Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.
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