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A room is not a room without natural light.
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
I am not a functionalist.
Architecture is surely not the design of space, certainly not the massing or organizing of volumes. These are the means, not the end. The end is the complete and total work of art.
Literature is the memory of humanity, and without it we are nothing.
Hope is not a feeling; it is a doable thing.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
Every morning I wake up in a bed that's not mine, in a house that's not mine, and I live the life of a man who's not me.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
La identidad no es algo dado, sino algo que se construye.
The true opponent, the enfolding enemy, is not the Russians but their own stupidity.
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.
A vida é o que fazemos dela. As viagens são os viajantes. O que vemos não é o que vemos, senão o que somos.
Não sou nada. Nunca serei nada. Não posso querer ser nada. À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.