moonchild

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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

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a gravity of language

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

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

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phantasmagoria

 

“Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.”

 

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson ~

 

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

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she

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced and colourized image created from a photo taken by a friend in 1972.

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full blood wolf moon

 

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.

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the performance

 

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.

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unreality

 

“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing

     is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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

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sitting be i here

 

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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

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a matter of attraction

 

“A living speck – the merest dab of life – capable of pleasure and pain,

     is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.”

 

~ Jean Henri Fabre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2020.

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ear worms

 

“Hums aren’t things which you get; they get you.”

 

~ Winnie the Pooh ~

 

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

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holey heavens

 

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

 

~ Judy Garland ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.

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libére ton esprit

 

“There is nothing more powerful and nothing more

dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”

 

~ Bryant McGill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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solitude descending

 

“Man loves company even if it is only

that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken sometime in 1989.

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bleach boned and hollow skulled

 

“Death is the greatest illusion of all.”

 

~ Osho Rajneesh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Church of St. Katharin in the Ossuary of the Chapel of St Michael in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.

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le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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carrots and cake

 

“Life, people learned, was not easy.

Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.”

 

~ Tao Lin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.

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candle burning down

 

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

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ladder to the moon

 

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

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