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Music of a Distant Drum Quotes
Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
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“Your life is a sum of counted breaths.
With each breath that passes
a part of life is lost.
That which gives life brings death every moment nearer,
and your caravan is led by one
who will not jest with you.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
With each breath that passes
a part of life is lost.
That which gives life brings death every moment nearer,
and your caravan is led by one
who will not jest with you.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
“One female who knows what to do
is better than a thousand males who don't.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
is better than a thousand males who don't.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
“Life is a dream interpreted by death.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
“I do not dye my hair black
so as to be young again and sin again
but because people dye their clothes black in mourning,
so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
so as to be young again and sin again
but because people dye their clothes black in mourning,
so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
“I have no time in the world but the time in which I am
and that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
and that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
“War begins like a pretty girl
with whom every man wants to flirt
and ends like an ugly old woman
whose visitors suffer and weep.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
with whom every man wants to flirt
and ends like an ugly old woman
whose visitors suffer and weep.”
― Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
