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“Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.”

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Rumi

Rumi, also known as Jalal al-Din Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His poetry is renowned for its profound philosophy, beautiful language, and strong emotions, and has had a profound impact on the world. more

“I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.”

Way Needs Persons Two Real Body Sleep White Week Cold Personality Bed Lays Saint Scared Superiors Hated Conformity Yellow Complaints Non Conformity Unbreakable Two Of Me

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.”

States Absolutes Who You Are Arise Firm Isolation Dimensions Belonging Conformity Within You Nothingness Non Conformity

Book:I Loved You All

Source: I Loved You All

“Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.”

Felt Existence Wine Conformity Fatigue Non Conformity Wanderers

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