Posts Tagged With: Life

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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crimson thorned

 

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

 

~ Leigh Bardugo ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2023.


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wormholes

 

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience
that primordial shamanism is based on
is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

 

~ Terence McKenna ~

 

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


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slow burning ember

 

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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too far

 

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

 

~ Dylan Thomas ~

 

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


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sparkle

 

“For small creatures such as we,
the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.


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wee

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma in November 1994.


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siren

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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


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la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts
when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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


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touch

 

“Find someone who will tremble for your touch,
someone whose fingers are a poem.”

 

~ Janet Fitch ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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a colour of dust

 

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,
sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.


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thistles and thorns

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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


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i’ll wait

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 1979.


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immediate curtain

 

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

 

~ Robert Wyatt ~

 

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


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the brown couch

 

“Love is blind; couch not his eyes.”

 

~ George Henry Lewes ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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on the cusp

 

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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double vision

 

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

 

~ Sholem Aleichem ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken Germany in September 2009.


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singer of silloliquies

 

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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soothe a savage breast

 

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

 

~ William Congreve ~

 

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


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chrystal holograms

 

“We don’t need to explain our love. We only need to show it.”

 

~ Paulo Coelho ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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