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humans
“It is painfully easy to define human beings.
They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.”
― Natsume Sōseki, I am a Cat III
ARCHITECTURE
“The sun never knew how wonderful it was,” the architect Louis Kahn said, “until it fell on the wall of a building,”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
interiors
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
“The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty’s ends.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
events / sport
“At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.”
― Aristotle
objects / products
“When machines are in control, the beauty they produce is cold and shallow. It is the human hand that creates subtlety and warmth.”
— Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
street / landscape
“In the distance, beyond the forest of masts and the lowered strawmat sails of the moored fleet, the glaring windows and neon signs of Hong Kong outshone the weak lanterns in the foreground and tinted the black water with their colors.”
― Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
“Standing at this border where land and water meet, watching the seemingly endless recurrence of the waves (though this eternity is in fact illusion: the earth will one day vanish, everything will one day vanish), the fact that our lives are no more than brief instants is felt with unequivocal clarity.”
― Han Kang, The White Book