"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings."

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Source : Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.170

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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“I â€” I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and with your gods perhaps there is time forever; but God in Himself has the whole of it, all times at once. It would be true to say that He came into our world and died here, in a time and a place; but it would also be true to say that in His eternity it is always That Place and That Time â€” here â€” and at this moment â€” and the power He had then, He can give to us now, as much as He did to those who saw and touched Him when He was alive on the earth.”
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
“Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.”

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“Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.”

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“I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.”
“The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.”

Source : Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Aâ€”risâ€”ta?â€ Degan asked, sounding horse. â€œWhat is it?â€ â€œA rat bit me,â€ she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. â€œJasper does that ifâ€”â€ Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. â€œIf he thinks youâ€™re dead or too weak to fight.â€ â€œJasper?â€ â€œI call him that, but Iâ€™ve also named the stones in my cell.â€ â€œI only counted mine,â€ Arista said. â€œTwo hundred and thirty-four,â€ Degan replied instantly. â€œI have two hundred and twenty-eight.â€ â€œDid you count the cracked ones as two?â€ â€œNo.”
“General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.”

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