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“Any moment might be our last.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.

You will never be lovelier than you are now.

We will never be here again.”


― Homer, The Iliad

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 I have lived long enough.

The course of my life is beginning to wither and fall away,

like a yellowing leaf in autumn.

The things that should go along with old age,

like honor, love, obedience, and loyal friends,

I cannot hope to have.

Instead, I have passionate but quietly whispered curses,

people who honor me with their words but not in their hearts,

and lingering life,

which my heart would gladly end,

though I can’t bring myself to do it. 

 

Macbeth

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Idleness came, that was for me the storm,
by its arrival it brought to me hail and rain;
this toppled for me moderation and a measure of virtus
and unroofed these from me then and there.
afterwards, I was careless to cover myself.
Immediately love arrived like a storm, into my heart
it seeped, right into my breast, it soaked through my heart.

 

Now, all at once, property, credit,

reputation, virtus, esteem departed.

 

I have been made through this experience

totally worthless.

 

Philolaches from Plautus' Mostellaria

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You are some blind fool that's always chasing butterflies

 

I'm the kind of guy who likes having a titty on one hand and the beer in the other

 

I can have what I want

 

Your hands will always be empty

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The real job of a work of art is to disclose a world, give meaning, and reveal truth. 

 

In this sense, works of art working can be thought as sacred.

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My brothers!

I see in your eyes

the same fear that would take the heart of me!

A day may come when the courage of Men fails,

when we forsake our friends

and break all bonds of fellowship, 

but it is not this day!

An hour of wolves and shattered shields

when the Age of Men comes crashing down,

but it is not this day!

This day we fight!

By all that you hold dear on this good earth,

I bid you stand,

Men of the West!

 

 

 

Return of the King

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“And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.
- Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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More Tolkien:

 

‘The world is indeed full of peril,

and in it there are many dark places;

but still there is much that is fair,

and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief,

it grows perhaps the greater.

 

‘Some there are among us who sing that the Shadow will draw back,

and peace shall come again.

Yet I do not believe that the world about us

will ever again be as it was of old,

or the light of the Sun as it was aforetime. '

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