"You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst."

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Source : William Langewiesche (2011). “Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert”, p.18, Vintage

William Langewiesche

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“Possibly, a crush is merely the attraction a person has for another person. Most relationships start with some sort of attraction. You see someone you like or you see things about a person you like and feel attracted to them. Many mistake this for love, but attraction is a powerful force.”
“She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.”

Source : Chantal Akerman, Catherine David, Michael Tarantino, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995). “Bordering on fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'Est”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.”
“The student is best taught who is told the least”
“Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens”

Source : "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 3,
“I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.”
“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

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