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- If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,… All
- The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we… Constellations
- I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam… Architecture
- You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found... Called
- The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure… Achieved
- Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with… Annihilation
- Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we… Control
- Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put… Accompanied
- Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from,… Came
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and… Becoming
- To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade… Arms
- The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all… All
- The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. Art
- Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone,… Anyone
- Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes… Admiration
- Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story… All
- A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another. Beats
- The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and… Constellations
- Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone. Everyone
- Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. Cannot Feel
- The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as… Able
- We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important,… Collective
- Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are… Civility
- More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat… Acting
- Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its… Bravery
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