Abu Nuvász idézet

“Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet with disappointment.
For this is the life,
Not desert tents,
Not camel's milk!”

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Abu Nuwas

Diwan, 11–12.

“You, mad to expect repentance,
Tear your robe all you want;
I will never repent!”

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Abu Nuwas

Diwan, 11–12.

“I bought abandon dear
And sold all piety for pleasure.
My own free spirit I have followed,
And never will I give up lust.”

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Abu Nuwas

Diwan, 164.