"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became."

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Louis Kahn

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“Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.”
“I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.”

Source : "I've an overactive brain". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.
“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.193, Faber & Faber
“I do what I think is right.”
“When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.”
“Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.”
“When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.”

Source : Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.118, Heinemann
“Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.”

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