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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VIENS DANSER AVEC MOI

 

“We’re fools whether we dance or not,

so we might as well dance.”

 

~ Japanese Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original detail photo of the sculpture “La Danse” by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux taken in Paris in June 2019.

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ROSES FOR MILADY

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

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PASSION PLAY

 

“I shape beauty to human mouths,

give wings to insight.

I make naked the word.”

 

~ The Dialogue of the Two Sages ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken of a mannequin in December 2019.

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NO BREEZE BREATHES

 

“Love is the first and most devious deceiver,

the most seductive delusion.”

 

~ J. Earp ~

 

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

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DEBAUCHED THEM ONE BY ONE

 

“…the human being, like the immortals,

naturally places sexual intercourse

far and away above all other joys –

yet he has left it out of his heaven!”

 

~ Mark Twain” ~

 

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

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SIREN

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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

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FERTILITY

 

“Là tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté. Luxe, calme et volupté.”

“There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a ceiling painting in the Louvre taken in Paris in June 2019.

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LES MENSONGES

 

“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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THE SECRET GARDEN

 

“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019. Provided by Mühlberger Media.

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OH LÀ, LÀ

 

“A breath of Paris preserves the soul.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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

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LE SÉDUCTRICE

 

“It is not enough to conquer;

one must learn to seduce.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) taken in August 2018.

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