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“It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those qualities in which we personally, or our societies more generally, are deficient. We respect a style which can move us away from what we fear and towards what we crave: a style which carries the correct dosage of our missing virtues.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
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