réminiscences

 

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art 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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one reelers

 

“You can revise a story, you can edit a film,

but you can only alter an event by lying about it.”

 

~ Marty Rubin ~

 

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carpe diem

 

“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday.

Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

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rainbow’s end

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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canvas

 

“How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!”

 

~ A. A. Milne ~

 

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pourboire

 

“Take time out for yourself and love the person in the mirror.”

 

~ Dee Waldeck ~

 

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all our being ends

 

“At the moment when we end, all our being ends with us.”

 

~ Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau ~

 

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only ever now

 

“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

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entombed

 

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

 

~ Terrence Davies ~

 

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the inheritors

 

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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what tantalizing tapestry

 

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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intricacy

 

“Every day has a little bit of beauty and a little bit of chaos.”

 

~ Tanisha ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of one of the doors at the entrance to Notre Dame taken in Paris in July 2013.

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shroom

 

 

“People who experiment with psilocybin report it as

one of the most profound experiences they’ve had in their lives…”

 

~ Paul Expert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a single Psilocybin mushroom taken in October 2015.

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le poids

 

“The burden of the incommunicable.”

 

~ Thomas de Quincey ~

 

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points of light

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

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requital

 

“La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin.”

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

 

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UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

 

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

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LE PETIT POISSON

 

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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PERHAPS

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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