quote of the week archive     
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  Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
— Ionesco
  A Japanese room is determined by information whereas a Western room relies on objects.
—Kiyonori Kikutake
  Modern life is a gigantic conspiracy against any kind of contemplation.
—Georges Bernanos
 

Our culture has forgotten the doorway of devotion.
Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee

  It’s an almost nonexistent line art treads, between the arrogance to claim it and the fear required to make it.
—Kathryn Harrison
  We are the people we have been waiting for.
—MIT Vehicle Design Summit
  To an environmentalist the sight of those breaking glaciers is as distressing as the collapse of Notre Dame would seem to a Parisian.
—Antonia Skârmela
  Ubiquity is not the same as permanence.
—Michael Cieply
  Nostalgia is a longing for what never was.
—Doris Lessing
  If people say, "Why should I be worried about global warming?" I think the answer is, "Do you like to eat?"
—Elizabeth Kolbert