ruines

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,

but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

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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dans un brouillard

 

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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roses for milady

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

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entombed

 

“Friends may come, friends may go, enemies are always faithful.”

 

~ Terrence Davies ~

 

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

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look back in anger

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

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open book

 

“A breeze discovered my open book,

and began to flutter the leaves to look.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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

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la malédiction

 

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

 

~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

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blind eye

 

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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fantômes

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.

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flapper

 

“A Flapper is one with a jitney body and a limousine mind.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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the wind in the willows

 

“The most priceless possession of the human race

is the wonder of the world. Yet, latterly, the utmost endeavours

of mankind have been directed towards the dissipation of that wonder.”

 

~ Kenneth Grahme ~

 

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

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summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.

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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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

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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

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nymphonettes

 

“I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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it’s all done with mirrors

 

“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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pandora’s box

 

“In naked beauty more adorn’d, more lovely than Pandora.”

 

~ John Milton ~

 

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

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trees talk

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.

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nevereveragainland

 

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,

more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2017.

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spice

 

“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

 

~ Joan Aiken ~

 

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

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