"A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison."

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Ugo Betti

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“The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.”
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

Source : Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”
“There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.”
“Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.”
“When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.”
“We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.”

Source : "I Could Have Sworn …". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.
“In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down Londonâ€™s mall for Queen Victoriaâ€™s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Letâ€™s not go there.”

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