We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst – you need them both.
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Karl Lagerfeld
What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is...
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Donna Tartt
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in...
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Thomas Hardy
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact as if it were common knowledge: the traditional design of most patriarchal buildings of worship imitates the female body. Thus, there is an...
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Gloria Steinem
More Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall
Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
