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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.”
― Albert Camus

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“Architecture is what nature cannot make.
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.”
― Louis Kahn

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“But in another city, another valley, another ghetto, another slum, another favela, another township, another intifada, another war, another birth, somebody is singing Redemption Song, as if the Singer wrote it for no other reason but for this sufferah to sing, shout, whisper, weep, bawl, and scream right here, right now.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

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