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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

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The artist's Death: His last Friend - By Zygmunt Andrychiewicz, 1901

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“Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.” - Pádraig Pearse (A country without a language is a country without a soul.)

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"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

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“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.  

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“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.”

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“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.” - Michel de Montaigne

(“Old Man in Sorrow”, Vincent Van Gogh, 1890)

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“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Melancholy, Domenico Fetti

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“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)

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“We suffer more often in imagination than reality.” - Seneca

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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

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“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.

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“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

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“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.)

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” - Plutarch

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“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)” - René Descartes

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“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