Posts Tagged With: Walls

sparkle

 

“For small creatures such as we,
the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Photo taken in May 2015.


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the ghosts of things unremembered

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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constant state of confusion

 

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Photo taken in August 2025.


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blood’s gonna flow

 

“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood
it is hard to shake hands with her.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Photo taken in October 2016.


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le cœur sans chaînes

 

“A broken heart starts with a broken love.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Photo taken in Paris in May 2015.


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empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.


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sparkle

 

“For small creatures such as we,
the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

000 sparkle 3

Photo taken in May 2015.


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the ghosts of things unremembered

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

000 the ghosts of things unremembered 2

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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les pieds du pèlerin

 

“You never conquer a mountain.
You just stand on the top a few moments.
Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

 

~ Arlene Blum ~

 

000 les pieds du pèlerin 2

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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a place i called home

 

“There are places we fear, places we dream,
places whose exiles we became
and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

 

~Thomas Pynchon ~

 

000 a place i called home 1

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.


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walls

 

“Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

 

~ Eugene O’Neill ~

 

000 walls 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2000.


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her bright embrace

 
“Landlords, like all other men,
love to reap where they never sowed.”

 

~ Karl Marx ~

 

000 her bright embrace 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on September 21, 2021.


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no summer this year

 

“…but there is no joy in Mudville –
mighty Casey has struck out.”

 

~ Ernest Thayer ~

 

000 no summer this year

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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sparkle

 

“For small creatures such as we,
the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

000 sparkle 2

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


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the ghosts of things unremembered

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

000 the ghosts of things unremembered 1

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


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jours étranges

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled
to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

000 jours étranges 1

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


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empires

 

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

000 empires 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.


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sitting be i here

 

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe
about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

000 sitting be i here 1

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


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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ
νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,
it is midnight,
time is passing,
but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

000 mare nostrum 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.


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saxophones

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.


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