Posts Tagged With: Destruction

twist of fate

 

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of
another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.
To read is to voyage through time.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from two photos of a book from my library taken in March 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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the myth

 

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.


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now

 

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

 

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

 

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


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ruines

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,
but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.


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love your world

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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


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SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US

 

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

 

~ Edward Abbey ~

 

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


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BOVINE SIGHS

 

“Cows are gentle, interesting animals.”

 

~ Ingrid Newkirk ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1991.


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PAS D’AVENIR

 

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work.
We cannot keep living on hope, though.”

 

~ Erik Pevernagie ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in December 2019.


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RUINES

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo, detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France, taken in Paris in December 2019.


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LOVE YOUR WORLD

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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


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THE GHOSTS OF THINGS UNREMEMBERED

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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LONG GONE TO DUST

 

“Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”

 

~ Chief Seattle ~

 

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


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NOW

 

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

 

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

 

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


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SPARK OF LIFE

 

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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


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SURVIVAL

 

You can’t run away from trouble.
There ain’t no place that far.”

 

~ Uncle Remus ~

 

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


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