where the time goes

 

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

 

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

 

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

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the road

 

“The road never ends…only our vision does.”

 

~ Amit Reddy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

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happy ending

 

“Words of snow, which fell last year.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

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

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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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even slower

 

“When we remember we are all mad,

the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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

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my turn to be forgotten

 

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

 

~ Joni Mitchell ~

 

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

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golden fleece

 

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

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dreambo

 

“A memory is what is left when something happens

and does not completely unhappen.”

 

~ Edward de Bono ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

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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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rough-hewn

 

“The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell

to free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

 

~ Michelangelo ~

 

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

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only ever now

 

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

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris 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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the nature of the beast within

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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

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season of silence

 

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 2002.

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long shadows

 

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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

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the ghosts of my life

 

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

 

~ Lauren Oliver ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a Polaroid negative taken sometime around 1970.

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never looked back

 

“I never waste time looking back.”

 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

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all that nothing

 

 

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

 

~ Chris Smither ~

 

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

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ruines

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,

but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.

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dans un brouillard

 

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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