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La souffrance d’aimer même atroce a des charmes ; Les meilleurs des amours, ce sont les plus ardents, Ceux qui font mal, ceux qui nous font grincer des dents, Ceux qui nous font pleurer les plus âcres des larmes.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 15.
Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.
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The suffering caused by being in love, even with those who behave atrociously, has its charms; The greatest loves, are those that are the most ardent, Those who do evil, who cause us to gnash our teeth, Those who cause us to weep the most bitter tears.
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