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“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line.”

— Omar Khayyam

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

From the 12th-century Persian poet's Rubáiyát, a meditation on the irreversibility of time.

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