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cogs in the machine

“We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.”

― Ernst Toller

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refraction

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”

― Shelley

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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bells

“…and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee…”

—Donne, Meditation XVII[17]

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nighttime (terror)

“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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car(e)free

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle

And, when the roads of Brussel were closed to cars this Sunday, that is exactly what the population did.

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faces at stripfeest

“People are strange when you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly when you’re alone
Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted”

– The Doors

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full moon over belgianstreets

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

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Back in May 2012 I captured a shot of the supermoon as it shone over belgradestreets

The photo above was captured this evening as the moon emerged from the clouds over the rooftops of Brussel…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Adventure!

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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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Ter Kamerenbos

“Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

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mont des arts kunstberg

“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

― Woody Allen