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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human absurdity

 

“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.

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slabber

 

“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive;

the filth you cannot see.”

 

~ Jocelyn Murray ~

 

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

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rara avis

 

“Most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,

their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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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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MISANTHROPE

 

“Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,

and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”

 

~ quote attributed to Albert Einstein

by Frederick S. Perls ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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EXTINCTION

 

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the fossil of a Trilobite, a sea creature that became extinct some 252 million years ago, taken in March 2018.

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NO FUTURE

 

“I believe the future is only the past again,

entered through another gate.”

 

~ Arthur Wing Pinero ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo of art by César Olhagaray on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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RARA AVIS

 

“Most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,

their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.“

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

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LES ACTES GRATUITS, ONT ILS UN PRIX

 

“I love Paris when it sizzles.”

 

~ Cole Porter ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Miss.Tic taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris in May 2017.

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BLOOD’S GONNA FLOW

 

“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood

it is hard to shake hands with her.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2016.

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