plucked

 

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

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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red

 

“Yet would we die as some have done,

beating a way for the rising sun.”

 

~ Arna Bontemps ~

 

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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 ~

 

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war

 

“Violence completes the partial mind.”

 

~ Peter Blegvad ~

 

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bête noire

 

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

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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no, no, no

 

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

 

~ Plato ~

 

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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 ~

 

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 ~

 

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 ~

 

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 ~

 

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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 ~

 

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COLOSSEUM

 

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

 

~ Tacitus ~

 

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CITADEL

 

“We are all born ignorant,

but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

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SACRIFICED

 

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw

on a bank where they have no account.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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RENDER UNTO CAESAR

 

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

 

~ George R.R. Martin ~

 

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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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