the dancing man

 

“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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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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reboot required

 

“The two most common elements in the universe

are hydrogen and stupidity.”

 

~ Harlan Ellison ~

 

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a series of successive changes

 

“Nothing in the world is permanent,

and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last,

but surely we’re still more foolish

not to take delight in it while we have it.

 

~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2016.

(“I am only a series of successive changes.”)

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prophecy

 

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

 

~ Charles Lamb ~

 

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en vin est vérité

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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as civilization begins to crumble

 

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

 

~ Livy ~

 

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intricacy

 

“Every day has a little bit of beauty and a little bit of chaos.”

 

~ Tanisha ~

 

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a simple truth

 

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration

has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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revolution is forever

 

“True revolution comes from true revulsion;

when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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LES RIDEAUX

 

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

and say what thou seest yond.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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HER BRIGHT EMBRACE

 

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

 

~ Karl Marx ~

 

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LA VIE EST CHANGEMENT

 

“Life is change.”

 

~ Heraclitus of Ephesus ~

 

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THIS TIME

 

“Life seems to always be in flux.

But when it comes to enacting change within ourselves

it is often only an exercise in self-deception…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the sculpture L’Adieu (1941) by Henri Laurens taken in Vienna, Austria in November 1993.

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FRAME OF REFERENCE

 

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

 

~ Ken Poirot ~

 

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HOW STRANGE IT SEEMS

 

 

“Sometimes the light’s all shinin’ on me; other times I can barely see,

lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip it’s been…”

 

~ Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir ~

 

This is a data created illustration of lightning in the clouds of Jupiter’s atmosphere. The information used to create it was taken from data provided by NASA’s Juno Space Probe. Illustration courtesy and © of NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS and Gerald Eichstädt.

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SAFE HARBOUR

 

“When traversing the vast sea of loneliness,

Oneness is the only true safe harbor.”

 

~ Gary Hopkins ~

 

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PROPHECY

 

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

 

~ Charles Lamb ~

 

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REVOLUTION IS FOREVER

 

“True revolution comes from true revulsion;

when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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