aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

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girl with a rose

 

“Love is like a rose. When pressed between

two lifetimes, it will last forever.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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rara avis

 

“Most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,

their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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bisous

 

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

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all this paradise

 

“Think of what a paradise this world would be

if men were kind and wise.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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two fragments

 

“Of the seven deadly sins,

lust is definitely the pick of the litter.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

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le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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rainbows

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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ladder to the moon

 

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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la mort est pour toujours

 

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

 

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

 

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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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alexa

 

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

 

~ Arthur C. Clarke ~

 

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the nature of the beast within

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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incandescence

 

“She took to his tinder with all the passion

of an unrepentant arsonist…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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soft serendipity

 

“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle

and discovering a farmer’s daughter.”

 

~ Julius H. Comroe, Jr. ~

 

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the glass hungered for the wine

 

“SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate

after he has eaten its contents, madam.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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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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until the curtians close

 

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

 

~ Andrzej Majewski ~

 

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