la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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

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never enough time

 

“There is not enough time for anything, ever.”

 

~ Hilton Als ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.

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primordial vagabond notes

 

“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

 

~ Miles Davis ~

 

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

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diving for pearls

 

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

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all our being ends

 

“At the moment when we end, all our being ends with us.”

 

~ Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau ~

 

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

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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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pure, simple nothing

 

“I love to talk about nothing.

It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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moon over me

 

“There are nights when the wolves are silent

and only the moon howls.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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

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remembrance

 

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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

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FADE

 

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

 

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

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PERHAPS

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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NOTHING AT ALL

 

“Belief never was, is not and will never be truth.”

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

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

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RIEN

 

“No one here gets out alive.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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

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STARDUST

 

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on 

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

 

~ Laini Taylor ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from the photos of two small surface fragments from Mars (left fragment) and the Moon (right fragment), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

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CHANGES

 

“Well, my mind is going through them changes…”

 

~ Buddy Miles ~

 

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

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SANDS

 

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2008.

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THIS TIME

 

“Life seems to always be in flux.

But when it comes to enacting change within ourselves

it is often only an exercise in self-deception…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the sculpture L’Adieu (1941) by Henri Laurens taken in Vienna, Austria in November 1993.

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