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Atom, escape from the sun if you can.

If you can't escape, don't quarrel or moan.

You are a pitcher and fate is a stone.

Your water will spill if you fight with that stone.

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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