Rumi Quotes

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

Rumi

• Wine
• Arrogance
• Hidden
• Appear
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• The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

  

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  • Believe
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• If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

  

  Rumi
  • Wine
  • Arrogance
  • Hidden