Posts Tagged With: Future

halcyon

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.


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and yet

 

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

 

~ Paulo Coelho ~

 

000 and yet

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peace

 

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.


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the ghosts of things unremembered

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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fleeting heart

 

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness
strung together on necklace of despair?”

 

~ Marian Keyes ~

 

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


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laughs in your face

 

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

 

~ Jim Morrison

 

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


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waiting for the end

 

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

 

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

 

000 waiting for the end

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.


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larmes de bleu

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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l’ombre de la mort

 

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,
and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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be we

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.


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empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.


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towards the light

 

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;
for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

 

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

 

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thin around cause

 

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause
and dense around the effect.”

 

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Seine taken in Paris in May 2011.


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draws the bow

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest
     to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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


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le penseur

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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new skin for old

 

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

 

~ William Butler Yeats ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1996.


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as if they never were

 

“The earth doesn’t care about humanity,
but humanity had better start caring about the earth.”

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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child

 

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

 

~ Margaret Mead ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris in November 2007.


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denudation

 

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French proverb ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2013.


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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.


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