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Lord Byron

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

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"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."

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

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"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."

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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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

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

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"There is no instinct like that of the heart."
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"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."
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"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."
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"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
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"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."
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"The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice."
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"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company."
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