a personal observation

 

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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pretence

 

“Most people love you for who you pretend to be…

To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.

You get to love your pretence…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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

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smile

 

“Everyone smiles in the same language.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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WITHOUT FLIES

 

“The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.”

 

~ George Herbert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2007.

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ALL THAT COMES AFTER

 

“Without love and laughter there is no joy;

live amid love and laughter.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

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

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NO BOUNDARIES

 

“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”

 

~ Malcolm De Chazal ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a Cro-Magnon woman taken at the Lascaux III Exhibition in Paris in May 2015.

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CHOCOLATE CREATURES

 

“Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless.”

 

~ Nadun Lokuliyanage ~

 

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

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THE DAY AFTER

 

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

 

~ Dejan Stojanovic ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of mold on a wall taken in Paris in May 2018.

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DEVIL’S DOPPELBOCK

 

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

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by an unknown artist taken in September 2013.

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PRETENCE

 

“Most people love you for who you pretend to be…

To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.

You get to love your pretence…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Matsch und Pfütze Foto Service GmbH.

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SEASON OF SILENCE

 

“I said nothing for a time,

just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness

that had been left inside me.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 2002.

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SMILE

 

“Everyone smiles in the same language.“

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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BRIGHT SKULL LAUGHING

 

“He who love touches walks not in darkness.”

 

~ Plato ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2017.

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