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- Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper…
- The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who…
- Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
- People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are…
- A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily…
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- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
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