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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
One day he saw a drenched log floating heavily downstream, and on it a butterfly, blue as eyes. This was the moment (I later heard) that shot him off on his tangent into the abstruse world of microscopes and numbers, lapel pins, cars, and
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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.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“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
“I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.”
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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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If You Are Willing to Take On the Meaning of Life
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