Posts Tagged With: Sleep

la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts
when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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


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i’ll wait

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 1979.


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flounder flat

 

“Words may be false and full of art;
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”

 

~ Thomas Shadwell  ~

 

000 flounder flat

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


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bats

 

“The colour of my soul is iron-grey
and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

 

~ Claude Debussy ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2014.


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the distance of myth

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1977.


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the tenebrosity of dream

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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


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the reluctant prince

 

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,
are you sure all we did was kiss?”

 

~ Red Buttons ~

 

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


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awakening

 

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,
and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

 

~ Frank Herbert ~

 

000 awakening

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021.


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unreality

 

“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing
     is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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


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paradox three – excerpt

 

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 1988.


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aftertaste

 

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives
   a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

 

~ David Mitchell ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2010.


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a new abnormal

 

“Living is abnormal.”

 

~ Eugene Ionesco ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary island of La Gomera in 1991.


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terpsichore

 

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

 

~ Corinna ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.


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cobweb strange

 

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,
for his mourners will be outcast men,
and outcasts always mourn.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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time of in between

 

“the sweet small clumsy feet of april came
into the ragged meadow of my soul.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in April 2008.


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when the owls awaken

 

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

 

~ Vincent van Gogh ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.


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this too shall pass

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2014.


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l’extase de l’insomnie

 

“Sleeping is no mean art:
for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 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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dreams fading

 

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who
can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees
the dawn before the rest of the world.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.


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