never looked back

 

“I never waste time looking back.”

 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

 

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

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the moon hung fat and high

 

“Au clair de la lune prête moi ta plume pour écrire un mot…”

“In the moonlight lend me your pen to write a word…”

 

~ French Folk Song “Au Clair de la Lune” ~

 

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

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the sanctuary of their blindness

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,

but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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until the curtians close

 

“Some men share brotherly love – that of Cain and Abel.”

 

~ Andrzej Majewski ~

 

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

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no future for fools

 

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

 

~ Zadie Smith ~

 

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

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with a fork

 

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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penance

 

“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

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

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silent movies

 

“The world is pressed against your fingers,

and you’re still looking for something to hold.”

 

~ Nitya Prakash ~

 

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

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wordless

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from photos taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

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in-betweens

 

“I’m a strange new kind of in-between thing aren’t I,

not at home with the dead nor with the living.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2010.

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for all our lives

 

“…she pulled apart roses to appreciate the thorns……”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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

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monkey man

 

“When fascism comes to America, it will be

wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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franklin in paris

 

“Our new Constitution is now established,

everything seems to promise it will be durable;

but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.”

 

~ Ben Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the plaque commemorating the signing of the final Treaty of Paris, on September 3rd, 1783 on the wall of the Hotel d’York taken in Paris in November 2007.

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all that nothing

 

 

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

 

~ Chris Smither ~

 

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ruines

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,

but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.

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dans un brouillard

 

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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open book

 

“A breeze discovered my open book,

and began to flutter the leaves to look.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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blind eye

 

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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flapper

 

“A Flapper is one with a jitney body and a limousine mind.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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nymphonettes

 

“I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

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

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