“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”
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“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me”
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“The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.”
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“The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
-chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age”
― Lord of Chaos
-chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age”
― Lord of Chaos
“In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. ”
― Le Morte d'Arthur
― Le Morte d'Arthur
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