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Émile-Antoine Bayard (1837-1891) French artist best known by many for his illustration of Cosette from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
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“In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd… It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.” - Stefan Zweig
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Arrighetto and the princess.
Edward Robert Hughes, from The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni, by Giovanni Fiorentino, translated by W. G. Waters, London, 1897.
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Vincent Van Gogh - Café Terrace at Night. September 1888. Oil on canvas.
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“Its melody sweeps the veils from the heart.” ~ Rumi’s song of the reed
Charles Chaplin. The Lost Bird, 19th Century.