Posts Tagged With: Light

pépier

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.


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le hurlement

 

“Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.”

 

~ John Selden ~

 

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


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ombres et lumière

 

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 1981.


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mouldy moon

 

“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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dusted with stars

 

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars
or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”

 

~ Neil Gaiman ~

 

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


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shine a light

 

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

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


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larmes de bleu

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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


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towards the light

 

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;
for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

 

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

 

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


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scripture

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
    Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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


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holey heavens

 

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”
 

~ Judy Garland ~

 

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


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dark nuances dance

 

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

 

~ Kate Braverman ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2010.


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libére ton esprit

 

“There is nothing more powerful and nothing more
dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”

 

~ Bryant McGill ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.


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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ
νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,
it is midnight,
time is passing,
but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.


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canvas

 

“How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!”

 

~ A. A. Milne ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2011.


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diving for pearls

 

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.


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darkness

 

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

 

~ Helen Keller ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.


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rainbows

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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


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la mort est pour toujours

 

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”

 

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

 

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


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same ol’ moon

 

“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”

 

~ from a French folk song ~

 

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


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only ever now

 

“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

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


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