"From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day."

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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

#Passion Quotes #Fire Quotes #Together Quotes

“I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.”
“Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.”
“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.”
“Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.”
“The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.”
“Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!”
“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”
“Where's the fun in that?”

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