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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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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."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
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"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
Love
"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."
Urbanism
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
Houses
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
Saying
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
Inspirational
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
Knowledge
"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
Living
"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
Voice
"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."
Public
"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."
Urbanism
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