new skin for old

 

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

 

~ William Butler Yeats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1996.

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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

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

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melancholie

 

“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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gramophone

 

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end 

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

 

~ James Russell Lowell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.

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girl with a rose

 

“Love is like a rose. When pressed between

two lifetimes, it will last forever.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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distance

 

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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

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the running man

 

“All I want in this life are three…a moonlit beach

on the starlit sea, a breath of opium, and thee.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in July 2005.

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bleach boned and hollow skulled

 

“Death is the greatest illusion of all.”

 

~ Osho Rajneesh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Church of St. Katharin in the Ossuary of the Chapel of St Michael in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.

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life is beautiful

 

“Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last.”

 

~ Brit Marling ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art on the side wall of the apartment building at 17 Rue Beautreillis taken in May 2017.

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the girl with a candle

 

“Look at how a single candle can

both defy and define the darkness.”

 

~ Anne Frank ~

 

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

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warmth

 

“As the nights get colder, the hugs get warmer.”

 

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

 

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

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bisous

 

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of lipstick kisses left on Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris in August 2015.

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all this paradise

 

“Think of what a paradise this world would be

if men were kind and wise.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le Dôme Café in Paris in May 2010.

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two fragments

 

“Of the seven deadly sins,

lust is definitely the pick of the litter.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

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

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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 ~

 

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 ~

 

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 ~

 

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

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris, taken in June 2019.

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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

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