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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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entombed

 

“Friends may come, friends may go, enemies are always faithful.”

 

~ Terrence Davies ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020.


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blind eye

 

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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


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ONE TWEET AT A TIME

 

“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities,
are incapable of self-government.”

 

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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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 ~

 

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


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ENTOMBED

 

“Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.”

 

~ Jean de La Fontaine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Metzingen-Glems, Germany in January 2020.


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BLIND EYE

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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


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AND THE DEAD LAUGH

 

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the wall of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise that runs along the Rue du Repos taken in Paris in June 2019.


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