fantômes

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

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a drowning man

 

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

 

~ Franz Kafka ~

 

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exit strategy

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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a personal observation

 

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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ces vieilles mains

 

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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lullaby for losers

 

“Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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cobweb strange

 

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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the event horizon

 

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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film noir

 

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

 

~ Raymond Chandler ~

 

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the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

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this too shall pass

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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the great silence

 

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

 

~ Markus Zusak ~

 

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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

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FADE

 

“Life has to be given a meaning

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

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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CASTING SHADOWS

 

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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LE PETIT POISSON

 

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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THE IMAGE

 

“To carry language from two dimensions

into three is the task of the poets.”

 

~ Terence McKenna ~

 

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NOTHING AT ALL

 

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

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

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AN UNLISTED NUMBER

 

“Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.”

 

~ George Sand ~

 

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LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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