Posts Tagged With: Hate

the absurdity of it all

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode
in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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human absurdity

 

“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

000 human absurdity

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america hurts

 

“As I say, it is perhaps easier to love America passionately,
when you look at it through the wrong end of a
telescope than when you are right there.
When you are actually in America, America hurts.”

 

~ D.H. Lawrence ~

 

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child

 

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

 

~ Margaret Mead ~

 

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la mort est pour toujours

 

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”

 

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

 

000 la mort est pour toujours

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint
of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

000 life's blood

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love your world

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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HEART

 

“The human heart is a strange vessel.
Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

 

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

 

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MY BLANK PAGES

 

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

 

~ Gaston Bachelard ~

 

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TELL ME

 

“Hatred is something peculiar.
You will always find it strongest and most violent
where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

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RIVER

 

“Yes, the river knows…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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RAVEN BLACK

 

“You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.”

 

~ Joshua Winning ~

 

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MEDUSA

 

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

 

~ Mason Cooley ~

 

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GHOST IN ME

 

“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”

 

~ Libba Bray ~

 

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DEATH IS FOREVER

 

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”

 

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

 

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RENDER UNTO CAESAR

 

“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

 

~ George R.R. Martin ~

 

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A DEAD ROSE

 

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
old Time is still a-flying:
and this same flower that smiles to-day,
to-morrow will be dying.”

 

~ Robert Herrick ~

 

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BULBOUS MAXIMUS ~ A FAIRY TALE

 

“Nationalism is an infantile thing.
It is the measles of mankind.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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SECOND SIGHT

 

“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

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LOVE YOUR WORLD

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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


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