"I do not complain against the hand of your absence. So long..." — Hafiz

“I do not complain against the hand of your absence. So long as there is no absence, presence does not give pleasure.”

— Hafiz (trans. Justin Huntly McCarthy), Ghazels from the Divan of Hafiz

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