the concept of glass

 

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

 

~ Robertson Davies ~

 

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

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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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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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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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le penseur

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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hopes and dreams

 

“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.

The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

 

~ Ajahn Sumedho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the ruins of Battle Abbey, near Hastings, England taken in June 1982.

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a few small drops of awareness

 

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a replica of Diplocynodon darwini, an extinct genus of alligatoroid that lived during the Paleocene to middle Miocene 49 million years ago in Europe. It looked very similar to the modern caiman. This particular type lived only in the Eocene epoch, in a swampy freshwater lake near Messel, Germany. Photo taken in May 2016. Replica from the author’s private collection.

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pure, simple nothing

 

“I love to talk about nothing.

It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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this too shall pass

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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too many books

 

“Psychopathia librorum…

I surround myself with the printed word.”

 

~ Sven Birkerts ~

 

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POUR L’AMOUR DES LIVRES

 

“It is what you read when you don’t have to

that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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TIMELESS TOMES

 

“So many books, so little time.”

 

~ Frank Zappa ~

 

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A DISTANT WINDOW

 

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

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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THE CONCEPT OF GLASS

 

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

 

~ Robertson Davies ~

 

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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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THIS TOO SHALL PASS

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

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PURE, SIMPLE NOTHING

 

“I love to talk about nothing.

It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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