“Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame — were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcase crippled to abide?”

—  Omar Khayyám

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Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

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