PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

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

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PLEIN LES YEUX

 

“Shut your eyes and see.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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L’AMOUR EST MORT

 

“Now you’re just a stranger, with all my secrets.”

 

~ Charles Dickens ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2014.

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MY WOODEN FACE

 

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2016.

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OPIATE

 

“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.

Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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SOFT LIES

 

“It is hot, the light is strong and I have an extraordinary sense of clarity,

although quite what is clear I cannot express.”

 

~ Lyudmila Ulitskaya ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in May 2012 from a painting by G. Barth.

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FRAME OF REFERENCE

 

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

 

~ Ken Poirot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris in May 2013.

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THE WORTHY KING OF FOOLS

 

“I reckon we are all fools. Born so, no doubt.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris December 2008.

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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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A DEMON THAT DEVOURED

“The creative person is overpowered,

captive of and driven by a demon…”

~ Carl Jung ~

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

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THE SILENCE OF HER LIES

 

“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”

 

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~

 

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PORTRAIT

 

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling

is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digital painting created in November 2020.

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ON THE MENU HERE

 

“I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.”

 

~ Elaine Dundy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a pocket camera photo taken near Agia-Anna, Naxos, Greece in August 1979.

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IN HER I HAD EVERYTHING

 

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:

Am I – or are the others crazy?”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the mineral Sepiolite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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THE DOUBT REMAINS

 

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art called “Poussiere De Tess – Batiment” taken in Paris in May 2018.

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BENEATH HIS FEET

 

“Semper bonus homo tiro est.”

“An honest man is always a child.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

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OTHER WORLDS

 

“There are times when we stop, we sit still.

We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”

 

~ James Carroll ~

 

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

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THE SILENCE OF THE STONES

 

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry,

whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.” 

 

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2007.

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RENDER UNTO CAESAR

 

“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

 

~ George R.R. Martin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2008.

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A TIME THAT’S NEVER BEEN

 

“Fare thee well! and if for ever,

still for ever, fare thee well.”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Montmartre in Paris in June 2019.

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