“Truth, for the tyrants, is the most terrible and cruel of all the bindings: it is like an incandescent iron falling across their chests. And it is even more agonizing than hot iron, for that only burns the flesh, while Truth burns its way into the soul.”
photos by Leo Touchet and Ed Newman
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All my troubles will be over, when I lay my burden down.
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting”
Ramgali, Lahore, Punjab, PK
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind ~ Hortense Calisher
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Kengun-jinja Shrine
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Goombad, Mazar-e-Ghayb Shah
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Shrines at Golra Sharif
Deep-hearted man, express grief for thy dead in silence like to death; Most like a monumental statue set in everlasting watch and moveless woe; Till itself crumble to the dust beneath; Touch it, the marble eyelids are not wet; If it could weep, it could arise and go ~ Elizabeth Barret Browning
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Kyoto Fushimi Inari Shrine
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MacArthur Shrine ~ Palo, Leyte
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