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"I swore an oath to Durin. To some, that may now hold little weight. But in my esteem, it is by such things our very souls are bound. I do not intend to let mine slip away on the basis of mere hope." - Elrond to Gil-galad
The artist's Death: His last Friend - By Zygmunt Andrychiewicz, 1901
“Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.” - Pádraig Pearse (A country without a language is a country without a soul.)
"If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by." - Japanese proverb
Hercules fighting the Nemean lion, Peter Paul Rubens
“Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi.” - Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova
(Behold, a deity stronger than I; who coming, shall rule over me.)
“Beatrice”, Marie Spartali Stillman, 1895.
“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.”
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.” - Michel de Montaigne
(“Old Man in Sorrow”, Vincent Van Gogh, 1890)
“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Melancholy, Domenico Fetti
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” - Plato
Listening to Schumann by Fernand Khnopff (1883)
“We suffer more often in imagination than reality.” - Seneca
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” - Vincent Van Gogh
View of Dresden by Moonlight, Johan Christian Dahl, 1839.
“Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.” - Virgil
(Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.)
“Tristan and Isolde”, Edmund Leighton, 1902
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Joseph Haydn playing quartets, Anonymous, 1790.)
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” - Plutarch
“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)” - René Descartes
“But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.” - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
Farewell by Edmund Blair Leighton