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Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment they began? They are born of toil and molded from the clay of sorrow.They wander the world for a time, then set off.
Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment they began? They are born of toil and molded from the clay of sorrow.They wander the world for a time, then set off.
Approximate author period: c. 1089 AD · medieval
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- Omar Khayyám
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- Approximate author period: c. 1089 AD · medieval
Approximate author-period evidence for Omar Khayyam: life dates 1048 to 1131. Wikidata Q35900, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35900 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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