Posts Tagged With: Lies

dix mots

 

“Lying is the most fun a woman can have
without taking her clothes off.”

 

~ Natalie Portman ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in Paris in June 2018.


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be we

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.


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


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the winds of war

 

“I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence,
unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

 

~ Erich Maria Remarque ~

 

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


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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 ~

 

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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 ~

 

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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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the new little corporal

 

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.”

 

~ Winston Churchill ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from various unknown sources in October 2013.


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beneath his feet

 

“Semper bonus homo tiro est.”
“An honest man is always a child.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

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les mensonges

 

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

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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love your world

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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


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PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

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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 ~

 

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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 ~

 

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


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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 ~

 

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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 ~

 

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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 ~

 

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


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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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