the dark attic of forgotten lives

 

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo of a painting by Brigida Böttcher on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN

 

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.

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MOON WHISPERS

 

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.

Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken somewhere in west central France in 2006.

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NO MEANING

 

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

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

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JUST A TRICKLE

 

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

 

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1989.

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TRUE SISTER

 

“Each friend represents a world in us,

a world not born until they arrive,

and it is only by this meeting

that a new world is born.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2009.

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BLACK CLOUDS DANCING

 

“We don’t see things as they are, 

we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

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JADE

 

“Looking back over a lifetime,

you see that love was the answer to everything.”

 

~ Ray Bradbury ~

 

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

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SINGING BOWL

 

“The knower of the mystery of sound

knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

 

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan ~

 

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

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HOLLOW SPACES

 

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

 

~ Raymond Chandler ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

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LA RÉFLEXION À L’AUBE

 

“The mirror is a worthless invention.

The only way to truly see yourself

is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by Anne Brun Mougin taken in Paris in June 2018.

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ENFLAMMÉ

 

“Paradise is to love many things with a passion.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by Vincent taken in Paris in May 2018.

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THE DARK ATTIC OF FORGOTTEN LIVES

 

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo of art by Brigida Böttcher on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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