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We may live without architecture, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. --John Ruskin (1849). Architecture did not have for its inventor a single or particular people. It is necessarily a universal consequence of the needs of man, and of the pleasures that in the state of society are mixed with needs. The invention of architecture must be put on a parallel with that of language, that is to say, neither one nor the other can be attributed to a particular person, but are the attributes of mankind in general. -- Quatremere de Quincy (1785). We are set down in life as in the element to which we best correspond, and over and above this we have through thousands of years of accomodation become so like this life, that when we hold still we are, through happy mimicry, scarcely to be distinguished from all that surrounds us. We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our lives according to that principal which counsels that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now seems to us the most alien will become that which we most trust and find most faithful. How should we be able to forget thos ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. --Rainer Marka Rilke (from "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties" by John J.L. Mood) |
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