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""The real work of any process of design lies in this task of making up the language, from which you can later generate the one particular design...The individual buildings which you make, will live, or not, according to the depth and wholeness of the language which you use to make them with...If it has the power to make a single building live, it can be used a thousand limes, to make a thousand buildings live."" — Jan 10, 2026 08:19PM
""The real work of any process of design lies in this task of making up the language, from which you can later generate the one particular design...The individual buildings which you make, will live, or not, according to the depth and wholeness of the language which you use to make them with...If it has the power to make a single building live, it can be used a thousand limes, to make a thousand buildings live."" — Jan 10, 2026 08:19PM
I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside. I don’t understand how my body can be full of everything bodies are full of—bones and muscles and blood and organs—yet my chest sometimes feels vacant, as if
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
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“I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.”
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If You Are Willing to Take On the Meaning of Life
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