Posts Tagged With: Balance

soliloquy

 

“To be or not to be isn’t the question.
The question is how to prolong being.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

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the nectar of nature’s beautiful bounty

 

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

 

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

 

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the absurdity of it all

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode
in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1987.


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in the balance

 

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance
that their own human ancestors established.”

 

~ Joan D. Vinge ~

 

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hung on rusty hinges

 

“Everything hinges on how you look at things.”

 

~ Henry Miller

 

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the inheritors

 

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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


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shadow and light

 

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.
The shadow is me.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.


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sacrilege

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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LE BALLET DE L’ÉQUILIBRE

 

“Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.”

 

~ Olen Steinhauer ~

 

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SOLILOQUY

 

“To be or not to be isn’t the question.
The question is how to prolong being.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

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THE NECTAR OF NATURE’S BEAUTIFUL BOUNTY

 

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

 

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

 

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IN THE BALANCE

 

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance
that their own human ancestors established.”

 

~ Joan D. Vinge ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021. Courtesy of Matschenbrei Photography GmbH.


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SACRILEGE

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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WHORLS

 

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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RISE UP SISTERS

 

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

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


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UN ÉTAT DE STABILITÉ

 

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow…”

 

~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~

 

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MON ÉQUILIBRE

 

“Next to love, balance is the most important thing.”

 

~ John Wooden ~

 

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ÉQUILIBRE

 

“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.”

 

~ Charles Pierre Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in November 2007.


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LE BALLET DE L’ÉQUILIBRE

 

“Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.”

 

~ Olen Steinhauer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in Köln, Germany in September 2016.


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THE NEST

 

“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind
to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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


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