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Ramon Canudas, sick convalescent by Santiago Rusiñol

Why Have I Lived?

I run through the memory of my past in its entirety and can’t help asking…

By Mikhail Lermontov

Council of gods by Virgil Solis

Seventh Heaven

Something wonderful happened to me. I was transported into the seventh heaven. All the gods…

By Søren Kierkegaard

New Testament

I Am the Wind

I am the wind that wavers,
You are the certain land;
I am the shadow…

Abbey among Oak Trees by Caspar David Friedrich

A Veiled Stranger

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the…

Old Man by Candido Portinari

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,…

By William Ernest Henley

Christ before the High Priest by Gerrit van Honthorst

Constancy

Who is the honest man?
He that doth still and strongly good pursue;
To God,…

By George Herbert

A picturesque scene of Moscow with mighty rivers flowing across vast plains, depicted in the style of Vincent van Gogh.

The City of Hope

(Moscow) Beyond the plains where mighty rivers flow
The City of my Hope lies eastward…

By Rosa Newmarch

Lovers in a landscape by Pieter Jan van Reysschoot

Flood of Emotion

It was still thundering in the distance; a soft rain was pouring down over the…

Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown

I’ll Go On…

Extinguish my eyes, I’ll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I’ll go on hearing…

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Sunrise (Marine) by Claude Monet

The Dream of a Curious Man

Do you know, as I do, how suffering can be savoured,
And do you make…

By Charles Baudelaire