"The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flÃ¢neur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room."

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Walter Benjamin

#Cities Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.”
“Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.”
“I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.”
“All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.”
“They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.”
“Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.”
“Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.”
“When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.”

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