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"Because each of your nights and days subtracts from your existence, 
permit not these nights and days to cover you with dust (1).

Spend them gaily, for how long, alas, will you be absent, 
while the nights and days go on and on."

 

Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat (quatrain 218) 

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(1)  To be plunged into sadness or despair. To be obliterated.