miracle

 

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

 

~ Edward Thorndike ~

 

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for some damn reason

 

“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another;

it’s one damn thing over and over.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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the voice of delusion

 

“You know that voice you hear inside your head when you think that

God or Jesus is talking personally to you? Well it’s the same voice

that people hear when they think that aliens are contacting them

     or that the Devil is telling them to do something. It is the voice of delusion…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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bleach boned and hollow skulled

 

“Death is the greatest illusion of all.”

 

~ Osho Rajneesh ~

 

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the sanctuary of their blindness

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,

but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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SHINE A LIGHT ON ME

 

“Is man merely a mistake of God’s?

Or God merely a mistake of man?”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT

 

“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how

people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.

It was a kind of dream time…”

 

~ Gregory Colbert ~

 

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STILLLEBEN

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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FLESH AND BONE

 

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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MIRACLE

 

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

 

~ Edward Thorndike ~

 

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THE SANCTUARY OF THEIR BLINDNESS

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,

but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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FOR SOME DAMN REASON

 

“I wish for a bright day, damn why I don’t wish for a bright life!”

 

~ Irfa Rahat ~

 

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OTHER WORLDS

 

“There are times when we stop, we sit still.

We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”

 

~ James Carroll ~

 

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A DEAD ROSE

 

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

old Time is still a-flying:

and this same flower that smiles to-day,

to-morrow will be dying.”

 

~ Robert Herrick ~

 

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THE LIGHT

 

“The trouble with people is not that they don’t know

but that they know so much that ain’t so.”

 

~ Josh Billings ~

 

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BRISE DE PRINTEMPS

 

“When spring comes to Paris

the humblest mortal alive

must feel that he dwells in paradise.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT

 

“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings,

you see how people were depicted

inside nature, not outside it.

It was a kind of dream time…”

 

~ Gregory Colbert ~

 

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

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BLEACH BONED AND HOLLOW SKULLED

 

“Death is the greatest illusion of all.”

 

~ Osho Rajneesh ~

 

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IN VINO VERITAS

 

“To take wine into our mouths is to savor

a droplet of the river of human history.”

 

~ Clifton Fadiman ~

 

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