the celestial laundry line

 

“That which can be asserted without evidence,

can be dismissed without evidence.”

 

~ Christopher Hitchens ~

 

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the voice of delusion

 

“You know that voice you hear inside your head when you think that

God or Jesus is talking personally to you? Well it’s the same voice

that people hear when they think that aliens are contacting them

     or that the Devil is telling them to do something. It is the voice of delusion…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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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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tomorrow never comes

 

“Learn from yesterday, live for today.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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exit strategy

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

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DEATH IS FOREVER

 

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

 

~ Hector Berlioz ~

 

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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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THE VERY LAST BUMBLEBEE

 

Celebrating Earth Day 2021

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Zitadelle Moat Nature Preserve in April 2010.

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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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DEVIL’S DOPPELBOCK

 

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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EARTH

 

“We are a fluke of nature,

a quirk of evolution,

a glorious contingency.”

 

~ Michael Shermer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Wieland Förster taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2011.

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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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WITH PASSION AND PLEASURE

 

“New-born desires, after all,

have inexplicable charms,

and all the pleasure of love is in variety.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

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QUE SAIS-JE?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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LIONEL IN THE DAN’S DEN

 

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

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

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