Posts Tagged With: Paris

like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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


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pépier

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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


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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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yawns back at me in yellow

 

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”
 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

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


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gribbles

 

“Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
Dulce est desipere in loco.”
“Mingle a little folly with your wisdom;
a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

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


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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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rise up

 

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

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


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becoming one

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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


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le hurlement

 

“Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.”

 

~ John Selden ~

 

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


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dix mots

 

“Lying is the most fun a woman can have
without taking her clothes off.”

 

~ Natalie Portman ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in Paris in June 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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phantasmagoria

 

“Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.”

 

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson ~

 

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


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innocence

 

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

 

~ F.T. McKinstry ~

 

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


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the dancing man

 

“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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


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the drowning man

 

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

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


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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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isolation

 

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other
across seas of misunderstanding.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.


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’til purr’d for again

 

“Curiouser and curiouser!”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2016.


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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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jours étranges

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled
to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

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


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