Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
ADOLF LOOSThe law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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The house thinks of the present.
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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