the absurdity of it all

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1987.

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the weight

 

“Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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pourboire

 

“Take time out for yourself and love the person in the mirror.”

 

~ Dee Waldeck ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1982.

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the running man

 

“All I want in this life are three…a moonlit beach

on the starlit sea, a breath of opium, and thee.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in July 2005.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a natural calcite formation taken in the Musée de Minéralogie in Paris in May 2018.

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris, taken in June 2019.

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only ever now

 

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

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

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

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war

 

“Violence completes the partial mind.”

 

~ Peter Blegvad ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of ants at war taken in June 2022.

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shroom

 

 

“People who experiment with psilocybin report it as

one of the most profound experiences they’ve had in their lives…”

 

~ Paul Expert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a single Psilocybin mushroom taken in October 2015.

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insignificant

 

“Life is a great tapestry.

The individual is only an insignificant thread

in an immense and miraculous pattern.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in November 2004.

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a few small drops of awareness

 

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a replica of Diplocynodon darwini, an extinct genus of alligatoroid that lived during the Paleocene to middle Miocene 49 million years ago in Europe. It looked very similar to the modern caiman. This particular type lived only in the Eocene epoch, in a swampy freshwater lake near Messel, Germany. Photo taken in May 2016. Replica from the author’s private collection.

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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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points of light

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

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

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genése

 

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

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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sparkle

 

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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

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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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GRAVITY

 

“Because there is a law such as gravity,

the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.”

 

~ Stephen Hawking ~

 

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

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CASTING SHADOWS

 

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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THE SKIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

“Close your eyes and see the beauty.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.

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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 ~

 

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

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