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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

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

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

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

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

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

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

"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."


"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."


"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."


"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."


"Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony."


"There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems."
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