Posts Tagged With: Heaven

the celestial laundry line

 

“That which can be asserted without evidence,
can be dismissed without evidence.”

 

~ Christopher Hitchens ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a flexed burial dated to ca. 3000 BCE taken in January 1988.


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réflexions

 

“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence
which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

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


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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris, taken in June 2019.


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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile
and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.


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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile
and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.


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DEATH IS FOREVER

 

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

 

~ Hector Berlioz ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris in September 2017.


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THE ROAD TO HELL

 

“What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone,
the other figures in it merely projections.”

 

~ T. S. Elliot ~

 

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


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AFTERLIFE

 

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.
But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.
We are programmed to betray.”

 

~ Michael Ignatieff ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.


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THE OTHER DAY DOWN IN HELL

 

“We are only born once – twice is not allowed –
and it is necessary that we shall be no more,
for all eternity…”

 

~ Epicurus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1983.


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SMOKE FREE ZONE

 

“If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by @Talmé_one taken in Paris in December 2019.


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IGNIS FATUUS

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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


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QUE SAIS-JE?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris taken in June 2019.


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GOD TAKES A BREAK

 

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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LIONEL IN THE DAN’S DEN

 

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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ÉTREINTE DE L’ANGE

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile
and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.


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BANANA BREAD HEAVEN

 

“Banana bread is better than sex.
Well, almost.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2018. Homemade Banana Bread courtesy of W. Feger.


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IN HEAVEN WITHOUT WINGS

 

“La vie est un sommeil, l’amour en est le rêve.”
“Life is a long sleep and love is its dream.”

 

~ Alfred de Musset ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.


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