"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

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“If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.”
“I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.”
“Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.”
“Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times”
“Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.15, Library of Alexandria
“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.”
“In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.302, Harvard University Press
“Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.”

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