Posts Tagged With: Darkness

tongue of the night

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.


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moonchild

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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


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the tenebrosity of dream

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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


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halcyon

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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pépier

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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


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le hurlement

 

“Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.”

 

~ John Selden ~

 

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


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isolation

 

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other
across seas of misunderstanding.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.


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the ghosts of things unremembered

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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one thin wire

 

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.


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shine a light

 

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.


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death and cobwebs

 

“When you bring the light into your dark house,
that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

 

~ Rajneesh ~

 

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


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laughs in your face

 

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

 

~ Jim Morrison

 

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


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catshadow

 

“At night all cats are grey.”

 

~ French proverb ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.


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larmes de bleu

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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


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l’ombre de la mort

 

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,
and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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


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like the moon

 

“The eye is always caught by light,
but shadows have more to say.”

 

~ Gregory Maguire ~

 

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


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be we

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.


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empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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


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can’t see the forest for the irony

 

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

 

~ E. A. Bucchianeri

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.


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serious moonlight

 

“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”

 

~ David Bowie ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2021.


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