Posts Tagged With: Mirror

second chance

 

“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,
ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”

 

~ Memphis  Slim ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 1990.


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these days

 

“These days I seem to think a lot about the things that I forgot to do…”

 

~ Jackson Browne ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1990.


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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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the final act

 

“I knew if I waited around long enough
something like this would happen.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

(epitaph)

 

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


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fantômes

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

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


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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

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


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through the looking glass

 

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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


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les pieds du pèlerin

 

You never conquer a mountain.
You just stand on the top a few moments.
Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

 

~ Arlene Blum ~

 

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


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SECOND CHANCE

 

“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,
ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”

 

~ Memphis Slim ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 1990.


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LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES

 

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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


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THE FINAL ACT

 

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

(epitaph)

 

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


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BITS AND SNIPPETS

 
“A man’s interest in the world is only
an overflow from his interest in himself.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Palace of Knossos, Heraklion, Crete, in October 1992.


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UN VIEIL HOMME

 

“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.”

 

~ Leon Trotsky ~

 

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


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MEDUSA

 

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

 

~ Mason Cooley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting taken in Paris in June 2019.


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KNOW MYSELF

 

“Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world.
Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 2007.


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LOST IN THOUGHT

 

“Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.”

 

~ Sanober Khan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture by Claude Morin,L’equilibre” taken in Paris in May 2019.


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LIFE AS ART

 

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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


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SHARDS OF LIGHT

 

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,
you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

 

~ Leonard Cohen ~

 

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


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FANTÔMES

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.


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SILKEN

 

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Eugène Carrière’s painting Femme Se Coiffant (1894) in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.


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