tomorrow never comes

 

“Learn from yesterday, live for today.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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le séductrice

 

“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Photo taken in August 2018.

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

Photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

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tense

 

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Photo taken in December 1987.

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no rehearsal

 

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

A photo of my lovely Ladies taken sometime around 1992.

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sextivity

 

“Closure is a greasy little word which,

moreover, describes a nonexistent condition.

The truth is that nobody gets over anything.”

 

~ Martin Amis ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.

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nymphonettes

 

“I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

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

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seven deadly sins

 

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken January 2019.

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nevereveragainland

 

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,

more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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

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choose to refuse

 

“Pleasure is the flower that passes;

remembrance, the lasting perfume.”

 

~ Jean dr Boufflers ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.

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take two

 

“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

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

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alexa

 

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

 

~ Arthur C. Clarke ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2022.

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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 a photo taken in September 2019.

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la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.

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the reluctant prince

 

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,

are you sure all we did was kiss?”

 

~ Red Buttons ~

 

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

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becoming one

 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is reality.”

 

~ Yoko Ono ~

 

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

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jours étranges

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled

to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

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

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sitting be i here

 

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Federici taken in Paris in June 2018.

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two fragments

 

“Of the seven deadly sins,

lust is definitely the pick of the litter.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

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