For let us make our Fête of to-day, for to-morrow we are gone, and what we have enjoyed is gone, and we are gone, and gone is our memory too.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat (interpretation of a quatrain)
c. 11th-12th Century
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