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You’ll never know why you exist, but you’ll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.Tristan Tzara (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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neden michael manring dinlemiyorsunuz kızlar? bak ben aaliyah dinliyorum ama?
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So, the whole idea, you see, is that everything’s falling apart, so don’t try and stop it. When you’re falling off a precipice, it doesn’t do you any good to hang onto a rock that’s falling with you. See? But everything is doing that. And so, again, this is another case of our completely wasting our energy in trying to prevent the world from falling apart. Don’t do it. And then you’ll be able to do something interesting with the free energy.
Alan Watts
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Later that evening, I talked to a friend about Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film. I admire the director’s empathy and respect for his characters. He does not keep his actors on a leash: he does not exploit them to express a concept, but rather shows them in a light that lets us sense their dignity, and their secrets. Kaurismäki’s art lends his films a feeling of warmth, I told my colleague - and then I knew what it was I would have liked to have said on the tape this morning. To build houses like Kaurismäki makes films - that’s what I would like to do.
Peter Zumthor, The Body of Architecture, Thinking Architecture
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Designing is inventing. When i was still at arts and crafts school, we tried to follow this principle. We looked for a new solution to every problem. We felt it was important to be avant-garde. Not until later did I realize that there are basically only a very few architectural problems for which a valid solution has not already been found.Peter Zumthor, A Way of Looking at Things, Thinking Architecture
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But the world of sound also embraces the opposite of melody, harmony and rhythm. There is disharmony and broken rhythm, fragments and clusters of sound, and there is also the purely functional sound that we call noise. Contemporary music works with these elements.Peter Zumthor, A Way of Looking at Things, Thinking Architecture
Contemporary architecture should be just as radical as contemporary music. But there are limits. Although a work of architecture based on disharmony and fragmentation, on broken rhythms, clustering and structural disruptions may be able to convey a message, as soon as we understand its statement, our curiosity dies, and all that is left is the question of building’s practical usefulness.
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or a symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.
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“You make the mistake of thinking that you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters– all that matters, really– is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness.”
Mersault, A Happy Death, Albert Camus, 1971
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Düz mantıkla düşünürsek, gözünü maddi hazine - hatta zihinsel hazine - hırsı bürümüş bir adamla, manevi hazine hırsı bürümüş bir adam arasında en ufak bir fark yok, benim görebildiğim kadarıyla. Senin de dediğin gibi, hazine hazinedir, anasını satayım, ve bana öyle geliyor ki, tarih boyunca dünyadan nefret eden azizlerin yüzde doksanı, tıpkı geri kalanlarımız kadar açgözlü ve sevimsizdi temelde.J.D. Salinger, Franny ve Zooey
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