wasted space

 

“ ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take

   your dreams to the grave with you.”

 

~ Timothy Ferriss ~

 

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holey heavens

 

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

 

~ Judy Garland ~

 

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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la roue de la vie

 

“The wheel of a man’s life. No mercy. No pity.”

 

~ Robert Jordan ~

 

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vanishing footprints

 

“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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sacrilege

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

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ONE CHANCE

 

“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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PETALS PLUCKED

 

“I can’t feel a thing;

All mournful petal storms are dancing

inside the very private spring of my head.”

 

~ Franz Kafka ~

 

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A CHANCE

 

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves;

otherwise we harden.”

 

~ Johann Von Goethe ~

 

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MATTER DANCE

 

“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

 

~ Bill Hicks ~

 

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WASTED SPACE

 

“Someday” is a disease that will take

your dreams to the grave with you.”

 

~ Timothy Ferriss ~

 

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SACRILEGE

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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FRAGILITY

 

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world

equals the power of your intense fragility.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

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HOLEY HEAVENS

 

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

 

~ Judy Garland ~

 

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QUE SAIS-JE?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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THE GREAT EQUALIZER

 

“The two most important days in your life

are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

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LA ROUE DE LA VIE

 

“The wheel of a man’s life.

No mercy. No pity.”

 

~ Robert Jordan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman child’s toy wagon wheel, circa 1800 years old, taken in March 2018.

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SCORPION

 

“If you lay with a scorpion,

don’t be surprised when it finally stings you.”

 

~ DaShanne Stokes ~

 

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