Posts Tagged With: Pleasure

too tired to try

 

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
   Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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this too shall pass

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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


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DOUBLE VISION

 

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

 

~ Sholem Aleichem ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken Germany in September 2009.


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POUR L’AMOUR DES LIVRES

 

“It is what you read when you don’t have to
that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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HERMAPHRODITE

 

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

 

~ Milan Kundera ~

 

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NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN

 

“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

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PLEUVOIR

 

 

“And then we talked of the rain, always back to the rain…”

 

~ Lou Reed ~

 

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TOO TIRED TO TRY

 

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of sandstone quartzite taken in Paris in May 2018.


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BLUEBELLY

 

“Everything’s better with some wine in the belly.”

 

~ George R. R. Martin ~

 

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THIS TOO SHALL PASS

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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SHE WAITED FOR HIM

 

“Waiting is the rust of the soul.”

 

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon ~

 

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


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DELTA FLORA

 

I admit that I am an old man.
I read my years in my mirror,
others read them on my brow.”

 

~ Petrarch ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Flapping Shutters Ltd.


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THERE WAS ALWAYS THE LEARNING

 

“Man…is above all the plaything of his memory.”

 

~ Andre Breton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by an unknown photographer in early 1972.


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VALLEY OF SHADOWS

 

“Love is, after all, a selfish thing;
and it throws a black shadow on anything
between which and the light it stands.”

 

~ Bram Stoker ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture (detail) by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in June 2019.


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THE BEAST WITH TWO HEADS

 

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Ficks & Fertig Enterprises.


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SARAH

 

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

 

~ William James ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting, circa the mid 1940’s, by my Father’s Mother, taken in December 2019.


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MEDARD AT MIDNIGHT

 

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –
but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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LA VERTU IRRÉSOLU

 

“Chastity ~ the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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WITH PASSION AND PLEASURE

 

“New-born desires, after all,
have inexplicable charms,
and all the pleasure of love is in variety.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

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


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ORIGINAL SIN

 

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

 

~ Hunter S. Thompson ~

 

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