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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ruines

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,

but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.

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as civilization begins to crumble

 

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

 

~ Livy ~

 

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

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hopes and dreams

 

“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.

The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

 

~ Ajahn Sumedho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the ruins of Battle Abbey, near Hastings, England taken in June 1982.

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trümmer

 

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

 

~ Comte de Lautréamont ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2016.

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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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

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NO QUARTER

 

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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SEXUAL CHESS

 

“Time is a fluid condition which has no existence

except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

There is no such thing as was – only is.”

 

~ William Faulkner ~

 

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

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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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PILES OF BONES

 

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 1988.

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RUINES

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

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THE FRAGMENT OF A TEAR

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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

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AS CIVILIZATION BEGINS TO CRUMBLE

 

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

 

~ Livy ~

 

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

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RUINS

 

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

 

~ Comte de Lautréamont ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 1981.

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TRÜMMER

 

“Anyway, maybe there weren’t any solutions.

Human society, corpses and rubble.

It never learned, it made the same

cretinous mistakes over and over,

trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”

 

Margaret Atwood

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in June 2016.

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