la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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i’ll wait

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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i lie alone

 

“And my tongue stiffens into silence,

thin flames underneath my skin prickle and spark,

a rush of blood booms in my ears, and then my eyes go dark.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

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wasted space

 

“ ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take

   your dreams to the grave with you.”

 

~ Timothy Ferriss ~

 

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the road

 

“The road never ends…only our vision does.”

 

~ Amit Reddy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

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the milk of human kindness

 

“The universe is a pretty big place.

If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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musique et danse

 

“And those who were seen dancing

were thought to be insane

by those who could not hear the music.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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points of light

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

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la vie

 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

 

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

 

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genése

 

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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the deception

 

“So much of life, it seems to me,

is determined by pure randomness.”

 

~ Sidney Poitier ~

 

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

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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SPEED OF DARKNESS

 

“No matter how fast light travels

it finds the darkness has always got there first,

and is waiting for it.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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STILLLEBEN

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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I’LL WAIT

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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FRAME OF REFERENCE

 

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

 

~ Ken Poirot ~

 

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LE MENDIANT

 

“We are all beggars, each in his own way.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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I LIE ALONE

“And my tongue stiffens into silence,

thin flames underneath my skin prickle and spark,

a rush of blood booms in my ears, and then my eyes go dark.”

~ Sappho ~

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WASTED SPACE

 

“Someday” is a disease that will take

your dreams to the grave with you.”

 

~ Timothy Ferriss ~

 

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CLOWNS IN A THREE RING BINDER

 

”All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

To be natural is to be obvious,

and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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