Posts Tagged With: Folly

siren

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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


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now

 

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

 

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

 

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


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penance

 

“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

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


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SIREN

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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


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SCREAM

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco Goya ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2010.


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COLOSSEUM

 

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

 

~ Tacitus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Colosseum in Rome in June 1996.


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PENANCE

 

“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

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


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BLACK BILE

 

“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it.”

 

~ Israelmore Ayivor ~

 

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SIREN

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.


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NOW

 

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

 

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

 

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


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DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

 

Days are stringed instruments
and every one strikes a different note.”

 

~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.


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MOON SHINE DOWN

 

“No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.”

 

~ Ashanti Proverb ~

 

Photo taken in Germany in May 2017.


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SCREAM

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco Goya ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Church of St. Katharin in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.


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