gertrudian

 

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the garden outside of Gertrude Stein’s apartment at 29 Rue de Fleurus taken in Paris in July 2013.

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ROSY CRUCIFIXIONS

 

“My life was one long rosy crucifixion.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2002.

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MOULDY MOON

 

“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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O HOW

 

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

 

~ James Dean ~

 

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

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SWEET RUM NIPPLES

 

“I have put my talent into writing,

my genius I have saved for living.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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CORRIS

 

“All are lunatics,

but he who can analyze his delusions

is called a philosopher.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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

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GOOD DAYS

 

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

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2000.

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LES RÉSISTANTES

 

“Resist much, obey little.”

 

~ Walt Whitman ~

 

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

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SING A SONG OF SOLITUDE

 

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.“

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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

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LA FEMME RÊVANT

 

“To himself everyone is immortal;

he may know that he is going to die,

but he can never know that he is dead.”

 

~ Samuel Butler ~

 

Photo of a bronze statue on a grave (the author unfortunately neglected to note the name of the occupant) taken in Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in May 2016.

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