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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult."

"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."


"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."


"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."


"A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."


"The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."


"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."
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