"We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go."

-- Guillaume Apollinaire

“The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.”

Source : El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”
“My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?”
“The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.”
“Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.”
“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”
“I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.”
“When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.”
“Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God.”

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