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“The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires, the smart one doesn’t admire: he respects, observes, understands.”
― Piranesi's Dream
― Piranesi's Dream
“Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.”
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“The tavern will compare favorably with the church.”
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“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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