woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

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THE VIRGIN

 

“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”

 

~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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MEMORIES

 

“The days are short, the sun a spark

hung thin between the dark and dark.”

 

~ John Updike ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2017.

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AN OLDER MAN

 

“Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me.

I think you have more of an adventure with an older man.

And a happier journey.”

 

~ Emilia Fox ~

 

Digital painting created in 1999.

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BEG FOR LIFE

 

“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take,

but it is finer to take than to beg.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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WOMAN

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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ANDROGYNE

 

“An androgynous mind was not a male mind.

It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience,

including the invisible lives of women.”

 

~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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A TIME THAT’S NEVER BEEN

 

“Fare thee well! and if for ever,

still for ever, fare thee well.”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Montmartre in Paris in June 2019.

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WAITINGS

 

“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”

 

~ Walter Bargen ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2019. Courtesy of VollMond GmbH.

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HIDDEN

 

“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,

and more than one believes.”

 

~ Renee Vivien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2019.

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LES DEUX AMANTS

 

“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful,

because we have had to love in order to live;

love has been our survival.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Jules-Robert Auguste’s painting Deux Femmes Dénudées (1825-1830)  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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SKINTIMACY

 

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy

from which they never recovered.”

 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE VIRGIN

 

“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”

 

~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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EIGHT HEARTS

 

“My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”

 

~ William Sharp ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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THE MUDDLED BRUME OF TIME

 

“And now, for something completely different…”

 

~ Monty Python ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in July 2013.

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LE CŒUR INTÉRIEUR

 

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”

 

~ Marcel Proust ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

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LITTLE BLACK KITTY

 

“There are no ordinary cats.”

 

~ Colette ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

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WARMTH

 

“As the nights get colder,

the hugs get warmer.”

 

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.

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MEMORIES

 

“The days are short
The sun a spark
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.“

 

~ John Updike ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2017 and kindly provided by DePiero and Associates.

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BEING NOTHING

 

“From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.”

 

~ Jean de La Fontaine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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