"The one charm of the past is that it is the past."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Past Quotes #Charm Quotes

“The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.”
“There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.”

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.122, MIT Press
“Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.”
“You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.”
“Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire.”
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”

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