la rue de ma vie

 

“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink

in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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ces vieilles mains

 

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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moirai

 

“O! I am fortune’s fool.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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on the ides

 

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”

 

~ Julius Caesar ~

 

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swirls, smiles and snarls

 

“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.”

 

~ John Lennon ~

 

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sacrilege

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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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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LES RIDEAUX

 

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

and say what thou seest yond.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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FLOAT AND FLOW

 

“To create is divine, to reproduce is human.”

 

~ Man Ray ~

 

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SCREAM

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco Goya ~

 

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I’LL WAIT

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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PETALS PLUCKED

 

“I can’t feel a thing;

All mournful petal storms are dancing

inside the very private spring of my head.”

 

~ Franz Kafka ~

 

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ON THE IDES

 

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”

 

~ Julius Caesar ~

 

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SWIRLS, SMILES AND SNARLS

 

“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.”

 

~ John Lennon ~

 

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WHEN TIMES WERE TIMES

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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MY BLANK PAGES

 

“The blank page gives us the right to dream.”

 

~ Gaston Bachelard ~

 

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SACRILEGE

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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VIRUS

 

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage

and unabashed in its cruelty.”

 

~ Aysha Taryam ~

 

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FRAGILITY

 

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world

equals the power of your intense fragility.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

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CALIX

 

“Suspicion is a tenuous thing,

so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth

is not easy to determine.”

 

~ Francis Iles ~

 

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