In a BTS Map of the Soul: 7 concept photo, Taehyung crouches atop a pillar surrounded by a gloomy fog, murky water below him, with black wings hanging from his back. A quote from German philosopher and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reads, "nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Taehyung x Goethe
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The BTS rap line wear classic suits and pose along the end of a table, looking directly at the viewer. A quote from French philosopher and critic Michel Foucault reads, "where there is power, there is resistance."

Namjoon/Yoongi/Jhope x Foucault
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In a chiaroscuro image from the BTS Map of the Soul: 7 concept photos (ver. 3), Jhope sits wearing a suit surrounded by bowls of fruit and flowers. With his head tilted, he fixes the viewer with an intent gaze. A quote from American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr reads, "nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."

Jhope x Niebuhr
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BTS Jin wears amusing novelty sunglasses glasses and a white shirt on stage for encores during the LY tour. A quote from French physicist, mathematician, and philosopher Blaise Pascal reads, "the heart has reasons of its own, of which reason knows nothing."

Jin x Pascal
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In a BTS Proof concept photo, Yoongi stands in front of a metallic target studded with bullet holes. A quote from Russian dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reads, "violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Yoongi x Solzhenitsyn
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In a BTS HYYH Pt 1 concept photo, Jin sits on the floor wearing a white t-shirt and ripped jeans with white lilies and calla lilies scattered around him. He holds one flower and looks at it with a troubled expression. A quote from American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr reads, "my real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions."

Jin x Niebuhr
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In a still frame from the BTS music video "Spring Day," Namjoon rests his head on Taehyung's shoulder, eyes closed with a faint smile on his face. Taehyung looks slightly off to the side. A quote from French philosopher Albert Camus reads, "for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the benign indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself - so like a brother really - I felt that I was happy again."

Namjoon/Taehyung x Camus
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BTS Taehyung stands in profile close to a riverbank, with a grey sky and the blurred, leafless outline of trees on the opposite bank. He wears a white turtleneck and a caramel tweed long jacket. A quote from Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein reads, "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

Taehyung x Wittgenstein
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In a concept photo for HYYH pt 1 "the most beautiful moment in life: anxiety," BTS Jhope sits sideways in an armchair wearing jeans and a varsity jacket. He rests his head on one arm with his eyes half closed. A quote from English philosopher Bertrand Russell reads, "only in thought is man a god; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance."

Jhope x Russell
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BTS Jungkook stands on a snowy expanse with mountains behind him, holding both hands up making v signs with his fingers. A quote from French philosopher and critic Mchel Foucault reads, "do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable."

Jungkook x Foucault
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BTS Jimin stands in a wintery field, wearing a black turtleneck and camel overcoat. He rests one hand on a tree branch above him that slants across the frame of the image. A quote from American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr reads, "the mastery of nature is vainly perceived to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery."

Jimin x Niebuhr
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BTS Namjoon sits cross legged on a grey stone wall in what appears to be a park, leaning slightly forward and turning his head toward the viewer. Behind him is a wash of green from young trees. A quote from Roman poet Horace reads, "people are enticed by a desire which continually cheats them. 'nothing is enough,' they say, 'for you're only worth what you have.'"

Namjoon x Horace
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In a concept photo for "Happy," BTS Jin sits on a bench wearing tennis clothes with some racquets on the wall behind him. He rests his elbow on one leg and his chin on his hand, looking to the side off camera. A quote from German-American philosopher and historian Hannah Arendt reads, "before mass leaders sieze the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of the man who can fabricate it."

Jin x Arendt
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In a BTS Dope concept photo, Taehyung stands in the iconic red elevator, holding a magnifying glass up alongside his head and looking playfully at the viewer. A quote from French philosopher and critics Michel Foucault reads "one should try to locate power at the extreme end of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character."

Taehyung x Foucault
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In a still frame from the BTS music video for Fake Love, Suga sits in an armchair, facing away from the viewer in an abandoned, rundown room with a blazing fire exploding toward him . A quote from French existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre reads, "once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."

Yoongi x Sartre
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In a concept photo from BTS Love Yourself: Tear, Jhope wears a green sweater and tilts his head back, eyes closed. His hair is ruffled by a breeze. A desert landscape stretches behind him. A quote from Swiss alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus reads, "time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new...but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?"

Jhope x Paracelsus
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In a meme "Jin cult" image, the moai of Easter Island are pictured, with their heads replaced by Jin's head wearing comical sunglasses. A quote from French philosopher Albert Camus reads, "the realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning."

Jin x Camus
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In a concept photo from HYYH PT.2 "papillon (butterfly)" BTS Jimin wears a disheveled suit, the jacket slipping from his shoulder as he spins a bubble wand on a slope of grass, dark green forest behind him. He tilts his head up in profile, eyes closed. A quote from German writer Thomas Mann reads, "war is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Jimin x Mann
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BTS Namjoon sits cross-legged on the ground, dwarfed by a large, mature tree with vast outspread branches. His head is turned, and he gazes off into the distance. A bright green lawn spreads behind him with a grey, contemporary building in the distance. A quote from German-Swiss writer Herman Hesse reads, "each man has one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself."

Namjoon x Hesse
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In a black-and-white image, BTS Jungkook stands on a balcony of a stadium looking out over the empty seats and the stage being prepared for a concert. A quote from French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre reads, "life has no meaning a priori...it is up to you to give it a meaning. And value is nothing but the meaning that you choose."

Jungkook x Sarte
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BTS Namjoon stands on the side of a street, peering down at the pavement with a perplexed expression. He wears a black beanie with a peaked top, a dark coat, black short pants, black socks, and black lace-up shoes. The grey grid of the wall behind him receeds into the background. A quote from French philosopher Albert Camus reads, "an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

Namjoon x Camus
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In a concept photo for HYYH pt 1 "the most beautiful moment in life: anxiety," Jimin sits crouched on the floor in the corner of an outdated hotel room. He is wearing sandals, shorts, and a long sleeved shirt, and his hair is mysteriously wet. He looks up at the camera with a troubled expression. A quote from English philosopher Bertrand Russell reads, "the principle source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end."

Jimin x Russell
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In an altered meme image, BTS Yoongi sports minty green hair and a thick tweed jacket. Seen inside a car, he extends one hand through the window with his middle finger raised. A quote from French philosopher Albert Camus reads, "in order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

Yoongi x Camus
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In a concept photo for HYYH pt 1 "the most beautiful moment in life: anxiety," BTS Taehyung grasps the white rails of a balcony and gazes pensively down onto a blurred street beneath him. A quote from British philosopher Bertrand Russell reads, "righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead."

Taehyung x Russell
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In a promotional poster for the BTS Wings tour, Jhope sits on a chair, legs stretched before him, in a small room heavily splattered with multicolored paint on walls and the floor. He turns his head slightly to look up at the camera provocatively. A quote from Swiss psychologist Carl Jung reads, "in all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

Jhope x Jung
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BTS Jin sits at the edge of a pool with his legs in the water, wearing shorts and a black-and-white striped shirt, eyes closed and laughing. The ocean stretches behind him. A quote from English philosopher Bertrand Russell reads, "one should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."

Jin x Russell
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In a Map of the Soul: Persona concept photo, BTS Namjoon wears a forest green sweater over a shirt and tie and sits, leaning forward, chin resting on one hand. He looks seriously into the camera. A quote from French philosopher Albert Camus reads, "whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

Namjoon x Camus
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In a black-and-white image from a stage performance, BTS Jimin stands wearing a bedazzled dark button-down shirt with one hand on his belt. His gaze is intense. A quote by French philosopher Albert Camus reads, "one recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it."

Jimin x Camus
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BTS Jin and Jungkook are seen from the shoulders up. Their backs are against a wall, and they have turned their heads toward one another with quizzical gazes. Jungkook, on the left, wears a white t-shirt; Jin's is black. A quote from French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes reads, "in order to seek the truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."

Jin/Jungkook x Descartes
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In a black-and-white image from HYYH Pt 1. "the most beautiful moment in life: daydream" concept, Yoongi sits on the edge of a wooden plank hanging high over the water. Turning his head, he looks up over his shoulder into the camera somberly. A quote from French playwright Jean Racine reads, "there are no secrets that time does not reveal."

Yoongi x Racine
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