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"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
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"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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"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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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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"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."
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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
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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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"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."
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"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."
Philosophy
"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
Happiness
"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."
People
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
Children
"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."
History
"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
Habit
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
Consciousness
"Ideas are the root of creation."
Ideas
"Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking."
Education
"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement."
Life
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