PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

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ALONE

 

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.”

 

~ Yul Brynner ~

 

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DEAD ROSES

 

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

 

~ Robert Hunter ~

 

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MOONCHILD

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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THE TENEBROSITY OF DREAM

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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LA FEMME QUI LIT

 

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

 

~ Lisa Kleypas ~

 

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LA COULEUR DE LA VIE

 

“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.”

 

~ RuPaul ~

 

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THE SKIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

“Close your eyes and see the beauty.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS

 

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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PURPLE SHROOM

 

“And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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TWO BECOME ONE BECOMES TWO

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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GRIBBLES

 

“Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:

Dulce est desipere in loco.”

“Mingle a little folly with your wisdom;

a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

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PLEIN LES YEUX

 

“Shut your eyes and see.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

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ILLUSION

 

“…and romeo was left crooning to an empty balcony…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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PLEUVOIR

 

 

“And then we talked of the rain, always back to the rain…”

 

~ Lou Reed ~

 

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SUMMER IT WAS

 

“Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,

like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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FOREVER CHAINED

 

“We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.”

 

~ Marcel Proust ~

 

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STARS

 

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

 

~Seneca ~

 

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