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A YOUNG MAN OFFERING A CUP OF WINE TO A GIRL
Persian miniature persane, 16th century
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, CT, United States
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'The wisest thing of all is to seek our hearts’ joy in a cup of wine;
not to fret over present or past;
finally (if but for a moment!) to release from the shackles of reason
our borrowed souls, which are languishing in their prisons.'
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat (quatrain 265)
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