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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A CUP
Persian miniature, midd-17th century
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, CT, USA
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"They tell you not to drink wine,
because you will fall prey to torments, and on the day of judgement you will burn like fire.
Perhaps so – but wine’s moments of joy are preferable
to all the best things in this world and the next."
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat (quatrain 445)
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