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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simplicity

 

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

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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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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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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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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ear worms

 

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

 

~ Winnie the Pooh ~

 

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le penseur

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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life is beautiful

 

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

 

~ Brit Marling ~

 

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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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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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

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saxophones

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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

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rainbows

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

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ladder to the moon

 

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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the last rose of summer

 

“What a lovely thing a rose is!”

 

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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soft serendipity

 

“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle

and discovering a farmer’s daughter.”

 

~ Julius H. Comroe, Jr. ~

 

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rum sweet nipples

 

“I have put my talent into writing,

my genius I have saved for living.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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no finer magic

 

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

 

~ Standing Bear ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.

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étoiles

 

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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