Posts Tagged With: Memories

halcyon

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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a gravity of language

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –
mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

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


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dead roses

 

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

 

~ Robert Hunter ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2017.


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an absence of luminosity

 

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

 

~ Louis Daguerre ~

 

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


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réminiscences

 

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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


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bagages

 
“Never be a prisoner of your past,
it was just a lesson, not a life sentence…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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


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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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the ghosts of things unremembered

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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death and cobwebs

 

“When you bring the light into your dark house,
that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

 

~ Rajneesh ~

 

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


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laughs in your face

 

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

 

~ Jim Morrison

 

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


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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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creation chimera

 

“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”

 

~ Kathleen Raine ~

 

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


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empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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


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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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tick tock

 

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

 

~ Hector Berlioz ~

 

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


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where the time goes

 

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

 

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

 

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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 ~

 

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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 ~

 

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


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even slower

 

“When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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


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