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I'm content with this way: nonexistence.

Why so much advice about existence?

The day I die by that blade, Not-To-Be,

I will laugh at whoever cries for me.

#1250: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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