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“De tijd gaat snel hier. Er zijn zoveel beelden, zoveel plekken. Ik weet het, ik heb ze ergens nog, ben ze niet vergeten; toch lijkt het, als ik terugkijk op de maanden, alsof die lange draad, geweven van zoveel fijne indrukken en herinneringen, is opgerold tot één bol, klein genoeg om in mijn hand te passen. Ik rol hem weer uit en brei er een verhaal van, groot genoeg om me warm te houden.” Pg. 74

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“What kind of montage of two images/elements would produce something beyond and outside these two images/elements, something that would not represent a compromise, but would instead belong to a different order - roughly the way someone might tenaciously pound two dull stones together to create a spark in the darkness?” Pg. 91

“In this perspective, a thing is never just an object, but a fossil in which a constellation of forces is petrified. Things are never just inert objects, passive items, or lifeless shucks, but consist of tensions, forces, hidden powers, all being constantly exchanged.” Pg. 55

“Is life any more than a slop bucket of accident and confusion? The freedom of the individual is the freedom to die without ever being moved by anything. What can pierce the thick wall of personality; your voice, your hand, a picture, a book, the sweet morning air? Myself imprisons me. The lead shield of my habits, that heavy, soft blueish-grey dead defence.” Pg. 87

“‘How are you Handel?’
(How shall I live?)
What are you doing these days?
(How shall I live?)
…
My own mind?
My right mind?
My true home?” Pg. 25

“Should I acknowledge the fiction that I am?”

“I too long to feel, but feeling genuine and deep. My colleagues think me a remote sort of man, but, if I do not know what feeling is, at least I have not yet settled down into what I know it is not.” Pg. 15

“Hij raakte de wereld al bijna niet meer aan. Een nat stuk zeep op een nat schoteltje. Glijden, glijden, glijdt weg.” Pg. 114

“Ik had wel kunnen zeggen dat er geen giraffen op Terschelling voorkomen, maar dat zei ik niet. Ik zou niet weten waarom ik dat had moeten zeggen.” Pg. 26

This book holds me!

Tried to finish this in one day, failed

Crying …

“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.” Pg. 9

………. Beautiful ……….

Reading 4 graduation project , Recommended by Vanessa

It’s been long since I was reading for the entire duration of the train ride home

““People are looking for illusions; they don’t want the world’s realities. And, I asked, where do I find this world of illusions? Where are their tastes formulated? Do they study it in school? Do they go to museums? Do they travel in Europe? Only one place — the movies. They go to the movies. The hell with everything else.” - Morris Lapidus “ Pg. 80

“(The representation techniques learned from architecture) are static where it is dynamic, contained where it is open, two-dimensional where it is three-dimensional - how do you show the Aladdin sign meaningfully in plan, section and elevation, or show the Golden Slipper on a land-use plan? These techniques are not suitable for thin, intense objects like signs;” Pg. 76

“How could we possibly understand it all? It’s clear that the largest things are contained in the smallest. There can be no doubt about it. At this very moment, as I write, there’s a planetary configuration on this table, the entire Cosmos if you like: a thermometer, a coin, an aluminum spoon and a porcelain cup.” Pg. 148

“Today, the middle source, the neo-eclectic architecture of the 1940s and the 1950s, is less interesting than its commercial adaptations. Roadside copies of Ed Stone are more interesting than the real Ed Stone.” Pg. 25

"That's what I dislike most of all in people - cold irony. It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others." pg. 94