the count considers retirement

 

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me,

with a red light of triumph in his eyes,

and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”

 

~ Bram Stoker ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2009.

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overkill

 

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

 

~ Albert Collins ~

 

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

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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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

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incandescence

 

“She took to his tinder with all the passion

of an unrepentant arsonist…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of Gomera in November 1991.

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all that nothing

 

 

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

 

~ Chris Smither ~

 

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flapper

 

“A Flapper is one with a jitney body and a limousine mind.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.

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a very nice pair

 

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.”

 

~ Mark Antony ~

 

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

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starsailor strange

 

“Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.”

 

~ Guy de Maupassant ~

 

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in her i had everything

 

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:

Am I – or are the others crazy?”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the mineral Sepiolite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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embonpoint

 

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons.

But in your hands they tremble and fill with song like plump, white birds.”

 

~ Cecilia Llompart ~

 

Digitally enhanced and colourised image created from an analog black and white photo taken in November 1981.

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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 ~

 

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

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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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NOT QUITE MOUTHFULS

 

“And I thought to myself how those

fast little articles forget everything, everything,

while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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

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SOFT LIES

 

“It is hot, the light is strong and I have an extraordinary sense of clarity,

although quite what is clear I cannot express.”

 

~ Lyudmila Ulitskaya ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in May 2012 from a painting by G. Barth.

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MOON WHISPERS

 

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.

Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken somewhere in west central France in 2006.

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THE EPITOME OF SIN

 

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner

is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting, taken in Paris, date unknown.

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BEDSIDE WIT

 

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

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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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ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE

 

“And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in November 2020.

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