"Space is the breath of art."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

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“In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.”
“My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”
“Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.”
“Prayer is a path where there is none.”
“[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them.”
“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”

Source : Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.9, Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?”
“Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 â€” that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?”

Source : The New York Times, October 25, 1970.

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