Posts Tagged With: Slaughter

plucked

 

“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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red

 

“Yet would we die as some have done,
beating a way for the rising sun.”

 

~ Arna Bontemps ~

 

000 red

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2003.


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gramophone

 

“As life runs on, the road grows strange
with faces new – and near the end 
the milestones into headstones change,
neath every one a friend.”

 

~ James Russell Lowell ~

 

000 gramophone

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


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war

 

“Violence completes the partial mind.”

 

~ Peter Blegvad ~

 

000 war

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of ants at war taken in June 2022.


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bête noire

 

“For now they kill me with a living death.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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no, no, no

 

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

 

~ Plato ~

 

000 no, no, no 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in 1961.


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the new little corporal

 

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.”

 

~ Winston Churchill ~

 

000 the new little corporal

Digitally enhanced image created from various unknown sources in October 2013.


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citadel

 

“We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

000 citadel 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.


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love your world

 

“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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


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might have made a difference

 

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,
and the last river is polluted; when to breathe
the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,
that wealth is not in bank accounts and that
you can’t eat money.”

 

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.


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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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WEE

 
“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in La Palma, the Canary Islands in November 1994.


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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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COLOSSEUM

 

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

 

~ Tacitus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Colosseum in Rome in June 1996.


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CITADEL

 

“We are all born ignorant,
but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.


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SACRIFICED

 

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw
on a bank where they have no account.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from three original photos taken between May and July 1987.


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RENDER UNTO CAESAR

 

“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

 

~ George R.R. Martin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2008.


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SHEEP

 

“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious,
and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in December 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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