the road to hell

 

“What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone,

the other figures in it merely projections.”

 

~ T. S. Elliot ~

 

Photo taken of a street in Pompeii in 1996.

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fleeting heart

 

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

 

~ Marian Keyes ~

 

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

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childhood’s end

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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DAWN MADNESS

 

“The road is life.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 1977.

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THE ROAD TO HELL

 

“What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone,

the other figures in it merely projections.”

 

~ T. S. Elliot ~

 

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

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CHILDHOOD’S END

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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JUST BEGINNING

 

“The end of laughter and soft lies,

the end of nights we tried to die,

this is the end.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Les grottes de Cougnac in France in June 2006.

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SEXUAL CHESS

 

“Time is a fluid condition which has no existence

except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

There is no such thing as was – only is.”

 

~ William Faulkner ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

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WHEN I DIDN’T GET THERE

 

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner

is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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OPEN OR CLOSED THEY STAYED

 

“The universe is transformation, life is opinion.”

 

~ Marcus Aurelius ~

 

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

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THE SILENCE OF THE STONES

 

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry,

whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.” 

 

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2007.

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SHADOWS LAUGHING

 

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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

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FLEETING HEART…

 

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

 

~ Marian Keyes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2019.

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BEWARE

 

“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time

and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

 

~ Aristotle ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in November 2010.

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SKELETON STONES

 

“The present is the laboratory of the future.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2016.

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