where the time goes

 

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

 

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

 

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the road

 

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

 

~ Amit Reddy ~

 

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happy ending

 

“Words of snow, which fell last year.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

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bisous

 

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

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le cadeau

 

“We are always the same age inside.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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now

 

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

 

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

 

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

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even slower

 

“When we remember we are all mad,

the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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my turn to be forgotten

 

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

 

~ Joni Mitchell ~

 

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a numbness

 

“How nice – to feel nothing,

and still get full credit for being alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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the day after

 

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

 

~ Dejan Stojanovic ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of mold on a wall, taken in Paris in May 2018.

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dreambo

 

“A memory is what is left when something happens

and does not completely unhappen.”

 

~ Edward de Bono ~

 

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la mort est pour toujours

 

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

 

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

 

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same ol’ moon

 

“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”

 

~ from a French folk song ~

 

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rough-hewn

 

“The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell

to free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

 

~ Michelangelo ~

 

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only ever now

 

“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

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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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la roue de la vie

 

“The wheel of a man’s life. No mercy. No pity.”

 

~ Robert Jordan ~

 

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season of silence

 

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 2002.

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circle game

 

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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grow wings

 

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

 

~ Frida Kahlo ~

 

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