“A Moment's Halt — a momentary taste
Of Being from the Well amid the Waste —
And Lo! — the phantom Caravan has reach'd
The Nothing it set out from — Oh, make haste!”

— Omar Khayyám

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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

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