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“Every Sin is an Attempt to Fly…”

10 Wednesday Feb 2016

Posted by smilingtoad in Experimental, Photography, Quotations

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Black and White, Florida, Night, Noir, Photography, Portrait, Quotations, Thoughts

Night-0387“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first, and is waiting for it.”
– Yousuf Karsh

Night-0450“Night does not show things, it suggests them.”
– Brassaï

Night-0393“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.”
– Simone Weil

Night-0457“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”
– Rene Descartes

Night-0480“Very hopeful faces always seem on the edge of despair.”
– Alasdair Gray, 1982 Janine

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