THE NIGHTS I SPENT

 

“a pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

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

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BLUE MOOD

 

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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NIGHTS

 

“Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,

may drink and love still reign,

with wine I wash away my cares,

and then to cunt again.”

 

~ John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ~

 

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THE GREAT EQUALIZER

 

“The two most important days in your life

are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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GUARDIAN ANGEL

 

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

 

~ Albert Camus ~

 

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REFLECTIONS BLENDING

 

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

 

~ Elias Canetti ~

 

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JEUNESSE

 

“Stolen waters are sweet,

and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

 

~ Proverbs 9:17 ~

 

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LES DEUX AMANTS

 

“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful,

because we have had to love in order to live;

love has been our survival.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Jules-Robert Auguste’s painting Deux Femmes Dénudées (1825-1830)  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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FERTILITY

 

“Là tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté. Luxe, calme et volupté.”

“There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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THE WATER NYMPH

 

“I will go to the bank by the wood

and become undisguised and naked…”

 

~ Walt Whitman ~

 

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