FROM BEHIND DEATH’S DOOR

 

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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

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LE SÉDUCTRICE

 

“It is not enough to conquer;

one must learn to seduce.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) taken in August 2018.

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TOMORROW NEVER COMES

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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STILL DELUDED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

 

“A rational army would run away.”

 

~ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kai taken in Paris in May 2018.

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YOUR ASS IS GRASS

 

“Everyone is so busy making believe that

their impending doom can be avoided,

that they will still delude themselves that 

a miracle can save them even as they are 

drowning, burning and slaughtering each other.”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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UN VIE VOLÉE

 

“What I want from life

is not always what life wants from me.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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SHEEP, WOLVES AND PIGS

 

“What can one do?

We are as helpless to control our Government

as we are to change the weather.”

 

~ Hortense Berthelot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at the King Barrows near Stonehenge, England in June 2007.

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BE YOU GONE

 

“Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure,

can also agonize with pain.”

 

~ Horace Mann ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Malachite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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HYACINTHE

 

“Art thou a hyacinth blossom
the shepherds upon the hills
have trodden into the ground?
Shall I not lift thee?”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2018 of an original painting by W. Feger.

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A DEGENERATE NOSTALGIC ANIMAL

 

“Man need never have left the forest.

He is a degenerate nostalgic animal.”

 

~ Pierre Drieu La Rochelle ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of new street art by Bansky taken in Paris in June 2018.

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