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View AuthorReinforced concrete is an honest and useful muse, and perhaps in the hands of a brilliant architect it would be admirable; but when it gets out of control and feels bold, like a cook turned cabaret singer, it commits such horrors that it should be restrained and taken to jail.
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View AuthorIt seemed so beautiful to me that I couldn't remember how it looked afterwards.
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View AuthorLiterature cannot reflect all the darkness of life. The main reason is that literature chooses, and life does not.
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View AuthorThe music is an art that is beyond the bounds of reason; the same can be said about whether it is beneath or above it.
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View AuthorThe world, for us, is representation, as Schopenhauer said; it is not an absolute reality, but a reflection of essential ideas.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
View AuthorEternity is one of the rare virtues of literature.
William Blake
View AuthorI will not reason, nor compare; my task is to create.
Giovanni Boccaccio
View AuthorIn a flock of white doves, a black crow adds even more beauty than the candor of a swan.
Cecilia Bohl de Faber
View AuthorMy criticisms are light and without venom, because there is none in my heart, and I detest it in literature.
Cecilia Bohl de Faber
View AuthorI usually read the preface in all the books, because sometimes it tends to be the best part of the work.
Pierre Bonnard
View AuthorThe art of painting consists of lightening and darkening the tones without decorating them.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorBeauty is that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.