as civilization begins to crumble

 

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

 

~ Livy ~

 

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intricacy

 

“Every day has a little bit of beauty and a little bit of chaos.”

 

~ Tanisha ~

 

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two candles burning

 

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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the sadist

 

“…the concept of an all loving, all merciful god laid to waste by reality…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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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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a study of hands

 

“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,

Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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the pen

 

“Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills.”

 

~William Shakespeare ~

 

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l’ êmoi passé

 

“The future is just a dream, the past but a memory.

There is only ever now and it never lasts…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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gertrudian

 

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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time of in between

 

“the sweet small clumsy feet of april came

into the ragged meadow of my soul.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

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le poids

 

“The burden of the incommunicable.”

 

~ Thomas de Quincey ~

 

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make art not war

 

“Art holds fast when all else is lost.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

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

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impressions

 

“Everything that we experience every day

leaves a long-lasting impression.”

 

~ Pharrell Williams ~

 

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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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the winds of war

 

“I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence,

unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

 

~ Erich Maria Remarque ~

 

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

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moon over me

 

“There are nights when the wolves are silent

and only the moon howls.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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the impression

 

“To create an unfavorable impression,

it is not necessary that certain things should be true,

but that they have been said.”

 

~ William Hazlitt ~

 

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what we want to see

 

“We are always remaking history. Our memory is always

an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.”

 

~ Umberto Eco ~

 

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

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midnightmare

 

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –

but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

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

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