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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos The house satisfies a requirement.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos All art is erotic.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos The house thinks of the present.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos
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Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
Chinmayananda SaraswatiChinmayananda Saraswati We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely.
Mr. TMr. T If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness.
Alan D. EamesAlan D. Eames