"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see."

Khayyam, Omar on The future
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"Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."

Khayyam, Omar on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays."

Khayyam, Omar on Life and Death
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"Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again."

Khayyam, Omar on Life and Living
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"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."

Khayyam, Omar on Argument
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"And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I."

Khayyam, Omar on Sky
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"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."

Khayyam, Omar on Solitude
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"A hair divides what is false and true."

Khayyam, Omar on Truth
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"Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!"

Khayyam, Omar on War
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"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."

Khayyam, Omar on Wine
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"The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it."

Khayyam, Omar on Writers and Writing
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