as if they never were

 

“The earth doesn’t care about humanity,

but humanity had better start caring about the earth.”

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

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

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melancholie

 

“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.

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solitude descending

 

“Man loves company even if it is only

that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken sometime in 1989.

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look back in anger

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

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THISTLES AND THORNS

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.

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TÊTE-À-TÊTES

 

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.

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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN

 

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

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

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MOON SHINES DOWN

 

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

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LOOK BACK IN ANGER

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

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LAISSANT VIE

 

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old,

but that one is young.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the grave of Dr. Paul Curlay in the Cimetière du Montparnasse taken in Paris in August 2017.

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HAPPY HEART

 

“Who has not sat, afraid,

before his own heart’s curtain?”

 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in August 2017.

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MELANCHOLIE

 

“I’d rather be unhappy and alone in Paris

than unhappy and alone here…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2017.

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THISTLES AND THORNS

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2017.

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WHITE SADNESS

 

“A man is already halfway in love

with any woman who listens to him.”

 

~ Brendan Francis ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2017.

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