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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
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Personal Development

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
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Personal Development

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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Personal Development

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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Personal Development

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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Personal Development

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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Personal Development

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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Personal Development

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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Personal Development

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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Personal Development

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."
People

"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost."
Thought

"In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver."
Quality

"There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt."
Doubt

"Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell."
Time

"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
School

"You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests."
Time

"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio."
Philosophy

"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
Architecture

"Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high."
Goal
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