"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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Kate Millett, American Activist

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Gene Tierney, American Actress

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Lillie Langtry, British Actress

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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Politician

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"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

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"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand."

Mary Landrieu, American Politician

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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

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"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."

Robert Indiana, American Artist

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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."

"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."

"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."

"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand."

"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."

"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."

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"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."

"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."

"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."

"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."

"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."