"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort."

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Adolf Loos

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“I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.”
“An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.”
“My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.”
“Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.”
“Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.”
“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.”
“Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.”
“Go by your own conscience.”

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