Posts Tagged With: Beauty

siren

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.


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today we shine

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on;
and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.


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jungle

 

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

 

~ Peter De Vries ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.


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one way street

 

“It’s such a strange time that we’re passing through,
I thought you’d tell me when your time was due,
I guess you thought I knew…”

 

~ Leon Russell

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.


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moonchild

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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


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the reluctant prince

 

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,
are you sure all we did was kiss?”

 

~ Red Buttons ~

 

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


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pépier

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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


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words like clay

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a newly excavated 1800 year old Roman burial urn taken in July 1987.


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becoming one

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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


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jours étranges

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled
to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

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


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simplicity

 

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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


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larmes de bleu

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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


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full blood wolf moon

 

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.
The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2019.


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a matter of attraction

 

“A living speck – the merest dab of life – capable of pleasure and pain,
     is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.”

 

~ Jean Henri Fabre ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2020.


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ear worms

 

“Hums aren’t things which you get; they get you.”

 

~ Winnie the Pooh ~

 

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


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le penseur

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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


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life is beautiful

 

“Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last.”

 

~ Brit Marling ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art on the side wall of the apartment building at 17 Rue Beautreillis taken in May 2017.


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boutonnière

 

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining;
show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

 

~ Anton Chekhov ~

 

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


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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.


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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le Dôme Café in Paris in May 2010.


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