PASSION

 

“Those who live passionately teach us how to love.

Those who love passionately teach us how to live.”

 

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~

 

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

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MEDUSA

 

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

 

~ Mason Cooley ~

 

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

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LIKE MAKING LOVE

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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HIDDEN

 

“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,

and more than one believes.”

 

~ Renee Vivien ~

 

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

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JEUNESSE

 

“Stolen waters are sweet,

and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

 

~ Proverbs 9:17 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Aristide Maillol’s sculpture Jeunesse  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE WATER NYMPH

 

“I will go to the bank by the wood

and become undisguised and naked…”

 

~ Walt Whitman ~

 

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

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HEAT TAKE TWO

 

“The bed must be a beautiful place,

not only because you make love there

but because you dream there as well.”

 

~ Anais Nin ~

 

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

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DÉSIR ROUGE

 

“There are two tragedies in life.

One is to lose your heart’s desire.

The other is to gain it.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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

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VENUS HIDDEN IN THE CITY

 

“Relationship is an art.

The dream that two people create

is more difficult to master than one.”

 

~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

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SINGING BOWL

 

“The knower of the mystery of sound

knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

 

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan ~

 

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

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