“When You and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,
Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.”

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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

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