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“Wine should be pale like the lover’s face. Yellow, the color of suffering: it should be mature and clear, bitter but sweetened with sugar. -- Translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould”

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Book:Divan of Khaqani
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