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Philip Gilbert Hamerton

"What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter."

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882). “The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]”

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#Sweet Quotes #Spring Quotes #Winter Quotes

“When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.”
“Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.”
“If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.”
“Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.”
“Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.”
“The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.”
“There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit.”
“We're not going to apologize for acting like a good football team.”

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