a personal observation

 

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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

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ces vieilles mains

 

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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

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rainbows raining down

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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what tantalizing tapestry

 

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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as civilization begins to crumble

 

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

 

~ Livy ~

 

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

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jesse / plain jane

 

“Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.”

 

~ Robert Fripp ~

 

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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 ~

 

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

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a study of hands

 

“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,

Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Picasso’s Étude des Mains (Study Of Hands) painted in Paris in the spring of 1921 taken in le Musée national Picasso–Paris in May 2015.

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l’ êmoi passé

 

“The future is just a dream, the past but a memory.

There is only ever now and it never lasts…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Miss.Tic taken on the Rue Broca in Paris in May 2015.

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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 ~

 

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

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phases

 

“I’m just going through a phase right now.

Everybody goes through phases and all, don’t they?”

 

~ J.D. Salinger ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2015.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Berlin January 2018.

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pretence

 

“Most people love you for who you pretend to be…

To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.

You get to love your pretence…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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

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pure, simple nothing

 

“I love to talk about nothing.

It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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moon over me

 

“There are nights when the wolves are silent

and only the moon howls.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

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the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

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

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this too shall pass

 

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

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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

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too far

 

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

 

~ Dylan Thomas ~

 

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

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how tart the taste

 

“A memory is what is left when something happens

and does not completely unhappen.”

 

~ Edward de Bono ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

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sacrilege

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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