And when I think my thinking rouses me to blame he who created me, And I gave peace to my children for they are in the bliss of the abyssWhich surpasses all the pleasures of the world,And had they been born they would’ve endured misery
-Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
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