Posts Tagged With: Past

wee

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma in November 1994.


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la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts
when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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


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melancholy

 

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.


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portails parallèles

 

“What if, instead of a parallel universe,
there’s a perpendicular universe?”

 

~ Robert Breault ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2018.


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flounder flat

 

“Words may be false and full of art;
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”

 

~ Thomas Shadwell  ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2023.


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the distance of myth

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1977.


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fossilized instances

 

“Though we are made of memories,
we live only in the here and now.”

 

~ Sue Halpern ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.


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halcyon

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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primordial vagabond notes

 

“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

 

~ Miles Davis ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019.


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dead roses

 

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

 

~ Robert Hunter ~

 

000 dead roses 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2017.


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peace

 

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.


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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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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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death and cobwebs

 

“When you bring the light into your dark house,
that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

 

~ Rajneesh ~

 

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


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laughs in your face

 

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

 

~ Jim Morrison

 

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


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waiting for the end

 

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

 

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.


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face in the wall

 

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul,
and the eyes mark its intentions.”

 

~ Cicero ~

 

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


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larmes de bleu

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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


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l’ombre de la mort

 

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,
and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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


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empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.


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