Farid al-Din Attar Quotes

A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!

Farid al-Din Attar

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• Absence
• Endure
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• Hundred
• Proximity
• Dismay
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