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"How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all."
"To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion."
"The rose that once has bloomed forever dies."
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
"You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing."
"If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I?"
"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see."
"In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls."
"A hair divides what is false and true."
"The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots."
"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."
"We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness."
"Justice is the soul of the universe."
"Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice."
"Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die."
"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
"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."
"Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears."
"This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place."
"Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."