The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1919 edition)
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gptkb:literary_work
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| gptkbp:adaptations |
stage and film adaptations
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| gptkbp:associated_with |
gptkb:Islamic_philosophy
Persian culture Renaissance literature |
| gptkbp:author |
gptkb:Omar_Khayyam
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| gptkbp:contains |
philosophical themes
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| gptkbp:cultural_impact |
inspired art and music
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| gptkbp:famous_for |
its exploration of existential themes
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| gptkbp:famous_quote |
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou.
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| gptkbp:first_published |
1859
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| gptkbp:genre |
gptkb:poetry
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1919 edition)
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gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:the_Beat_Generation Western literature |
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gptkb:Sufism
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| gptkbp:inspired |
gptkb:popular_culture
modern poetry |
| gptkbp:is_cited_in |
literary critics
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| gptkbp:language |
English
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| gptkbp:next_edition |
1919 edition
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| gptkbp:notable_for |
quatrains
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The unexamined life is not worth living. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Believe you can and you're halfway there. Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. The mind is everything. What you think you become. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Get busy living or get busy dying. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. The greatest wealth is to live content with little. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Life is but a dream. The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on. The heart is a lonely hunter. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. We are but dust and shadow. To be is to be perceived. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. The best revenge is massive success. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. The best way to predict your future is to create it. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why you go. Know thyself. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. |
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gptkb:Persian
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| gptkbp:published_by |
Various publishers
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| gptkbp:published_in |
1919
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| gptkbp:style |
lyrical
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| gptkbp:themes |
gptkb:fate
love mortality the nature of life |
| gptkbp:translated_into |
gptkb:Edward_Fitz_Gerald
many languages |
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gptkb:Edward_Fitzgerald
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4
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