Posts Tagged With: Truth

halcyon

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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


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dix mots

 

“Lying is the most fun a woman can have
without taking her clothes off.”

 

~ Natalie Portman ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in Paris in June 2018.


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phantasmagoria

 

“Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.”

 

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson ~

 

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


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bleach boned and hollow skulled

 

“Death is the greatest illusion of all.”

 

~ Osho Rajneesh ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Church of St. Katharin in the Ossuary of the Chapel of St Michael in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.


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only ever now

 

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

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

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


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the sanctuary of their blindness

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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


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spice

 

“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

 

~ Joan Aiken ~

 

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


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exit strategy

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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en vin est vérité

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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


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a simple truth

 

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.
What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration
has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.
There is no matter.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a recycled flower bed taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.


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hopes and dreams

 

“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.
The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

 

~ Ajahn Sumedho ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the ruins of Battle Abbey, near Hastings, England taken in June 1982.


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through the looking glass

 

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

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


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in her i had everything

 

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:
Am I – or are the others crazy?”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the mineral Sepiolite taken in Paris in May 2018.


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the doubt remains

 

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art called “Poussiere De Tess – Batiment” taken in Paris in May 2018.


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the new little corporal

 

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.”

 

~ Winston Churchill ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from various unknown sources in October 2013.


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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.


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les mensonges

 

“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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half the truth

 

“Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.”

 

~ Martin H. Fischer ~

 

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


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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,
don’t make the wheel start up again,
then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

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


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