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Ostuni - Puglia - Italy - July 2024

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

(Clare Boothe Luce)

 La simplicité est le summum de la sophistication.

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art

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Piazza Duomo - Taormina - Sicilia - April 2024

Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life.

(Pablo Picasso)

L'art lave l'âme de la poussière de la vie quotidienne.

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profondeur

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Lago di Braies - Dolomiti - Trentino - Italy - August 2023

Depth must be hidden.

Where ? To the surface.

(Hugo von Hoffmannstahl)

La profondeur doit être cachée.

Où ? À la surface.

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destin

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Mediterranean Sunset from the ferry between Sardinia and Italy - August 2015

 It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

(Tony Robbins)

C'est dans les moments de décision que se forge votre destin.

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illusion

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Venezia - Italy - August 2021

Is not this whole world an illusion ? 

And yet it fools everybody.

 (Angela Carter)

Le monde entier n'est-il pas une illusion?

Et pourtant il trompe tout le monde.

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couleurs

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Burano - Veneto - Italy - August 2020

All colors are the friends of their neighbors

and the lovers of their opposites.

(Marc Chagall)

Toutes les couleurs sont les amies de leurs voisines 

et les amantes de leurs opposées.

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éclairer

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Sunset seen over the Esterel from home in Soldano - Italy - December 2018

 Light tomorrow with today.

(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Éclaire demain avec aujourd'hui.

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mer

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Bordighera - Italy - August 2022

 I wanted freedom, open air and adventure.

I found it on the sea.

(Alain Gerbeault)

J'avais envie de liberté, de grand air et d'aventure.

Je l'ai trouvé sur la mer.

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ombre et lumière

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Sunset over the Esterel mountains taken from home - Soldano - Italy - February 2017

 Shadow is a color as light is, but less brilliant;

light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

(Paul Cezanne)

L'ombre est une couleur comme la lumière, mais moins brillante;

la lumière et l'ombre ne sont que la relation de deux teintes.

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couleurs

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Cinque Terre - Riomaggiore - Italy - April 2023

 Colors speak all languages.

(Joseph Addison)

Les couleurs parlent toutes les langues.

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illusion

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Lungomare Argentina - Bordighera - Liguria - Italy - November 2021

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic,

so what you see is not what you see.

(Phillip Guston)

La peinture est une illusion, un morceau de magie,

donc ce que vous voyez n'est pas ce que vous voyez.

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détails

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Lago di Carezza - Dolomites - Italy - August 2023

Details matter, they create depth and depth creates authenticity.

(Neil Blumenthal)

Les détails sont importants, ils créent de la profondeur

et la profondeur crée de l'authenticité.

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nuages

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above Arabba - Dolomites - Italy - August 2023

When we feel stuck, look at the sky.

The clouds remind us that everything changes. 

Lorsque nous nous sentons coincés, regardons le ciel.

Les nuages nous rappellent que tout change.

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passion

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Looking at the sunset towards Monaco and France from home in Soldano - Italy - November 2021

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something.
It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

(Mary Lou Retton)

Chacun d'entre nous a une passion pour quelque chose.

Notre but dans la vie est de la trouver et de la conserver.

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voyager

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Vernazza - Cinque Terre - Liguria - Italy - August 2013

 Live life with no excuses, travel with no regrets.

(Oscar Wilde)

Vivre sans excuses, voyager sans regrets.

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Riomaggiore - Cinque Terre - Liguria - Italy - April 2023

 As an architect, you design for the present,

with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown.

(Norman Foster)

En tant qu'architecte, vous concevez pour le présent,

avec une conscience du passé pour un futur qui est essentiellement inconnu.

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juste

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Vernazza - Cinque Terre - Liguria - Italy - April 2023

The time is always right to do what is right.
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
Il est toujours temps de faire ce qui est juste.

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turbulence

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Cloud formation in the mountains in front of home - Soldano - Liguria - Italy - May 2023

When a system is in turbulence, 

the turbulence is not just out there in the environment,

but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

(Kevin Kelly)

Lorsqu'un système est en turbulence,

la turbulence n'est pas seulement juste là dans l'environnement,

mais fait partie de l'organisation ou de l'organisme que vous observez.

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moments

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Riomaggiore - Cinque Terre - Liguria - Italy - April 2023

 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

(Rose Kennedy)

La vie n'est pas une questions d'étapes mais de moments.

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Riomaggiore - Cinque Terre - Liguria - Italy - April 2023

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

(Tony Robbins)

Le seul voyage impossible est celui qu'on ne commence jamais. 

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