a numbness

 

“How nice – to feel nothing,

and still get full credit for being alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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

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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

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wordless

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from photos taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

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ruines

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,

but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.

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dans un brouillard

 

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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music

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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

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this excrement unction

 

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

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ombres sur mon mur

 

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.

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taste alone

 

“I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue

than live and never touch you again.”

 

~ Michelle Hodkin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1986.

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élan vital

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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DARK COME THE DAYS

 

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

 

~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019. Photo courtesy of W. Feger, used with permission.

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THE TENEBROSITY OF DREAM

 

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

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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

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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

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LARMES DE BLEU

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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

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THE SKIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

“Close your eyes and see the beauty.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.

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IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER…

 

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

 

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

 

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

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L’AMOUR EST MORT

 

“Now you’re just a stranger, with all my secrets.”

 

~ Charles Dickens ~

 

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

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THE SUMMER OF DISCONTENT

 

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out

than it would have been if it had never shone.”

 

~ John Steinbeck ~

 

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

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COBWEBS

 

“Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind…”

 

~ Graham Nash ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Cimetière du Père–Lachaise in Paris in September 2015.

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SKY

 

“I never get tired of the blue sky.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2015.

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