"Freely our life revolves, and every breath
Is free as air; we live so playfully,
But secretly we crave reality:
Begetting, birth, and suffering, and death."

- Hermann Hesse, "But Secretly We Thirst," from the Poems of Knecht's Student Years; tr. Winston

"Elrond Half-elven...chose, as was granted to him, to be numbered among the Eldar; but Elros his brother chose to abide with Men."

- "Of Eärendil and the War of Wrath", The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

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