empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

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the fabric of our souls

 

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

 

~ Charles Ives ~

 

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thin around cause

 

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

 

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

 

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

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childhood’s end

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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paradox three – excerpt

 

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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overkill

 

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

 

~ Albert Collins ~

 

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saxophones

 

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

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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rainbows

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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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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silent movies

 

“The world is pressed against your fingers,

and you’re still looking for something to hold.”

 

~ Nitya Prakash ~

 

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

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for all our lives

 

“…she pulled apart roses to appreciate the thorns……”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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

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a new abnormal

 

“Living is abnormal.”

 

~ Eugene Ionesco ~

 

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

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the event horizon

 

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

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ombres sur mon mur

 

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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wintertide

 

“He withers all in silence, and in his hand

unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.

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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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TWO BECOME ONE BECOMES TWO

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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THE MOVEMENT OF AIR

 

“A painter paints pictures on canvas.

But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

 

~ Leopold Stokowski ~

 

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VIS LIBRES ET MEURS

 

“Freedom and responsibility aren’t interconnected things.

They are the same thing.”

 

~ Harry Browne ~

 

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