rise up

 

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

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a distant window

 

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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be we

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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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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human absurdity

 

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

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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le penseur

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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slabber

 

“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive;

the filth you cannot see.”

 

~ Jocelyn Murray ~

 

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

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happy ending

 

“Words of snow, which fell last year.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

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the sanctuary of their blindness

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,

but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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the sin of the calf

 

“When they asked me what my religion was

I said that I was Non-Delusional.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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look back in anger

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

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a sea of humanity

 

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

 

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

 

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the inheritors

 

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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imagine

 

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled

with the entrails of the last priest.”

 

~ Denis Diderot ~

 

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citadel

 

“We are all born ignorant,

but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

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points of light

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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

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les mensonges

 

“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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love your world

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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doors of deception

 

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

 

~ L. Frank Baum ~

 

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