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Quote by Bernard Tschumi

“Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.”

Work

This book delves into the theoretical aspects of architecture, focusing on the idea of disjunction as a fundamental element in architectural design. It examines how disjunction can influence the form, function, and aesthetic of buildings and urban spaces. more

Author

Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi is a Swiss-born architect known for his unique architectural style and theoretical contributions. His works blend elements of modernism and postmodernism, having a profound impact on the contemporary architectural world. more

“All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.”

Men Heart Seems Half Virtue Alive Doors Delight Intellect Attraction Beloved Comparison Tempted Harlots

Book:The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.”

Humans Hours Dark Creatures Delight Hungry Vampire

Author:Darren Shan

“The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.”

Firsts Past Love Is Humility Sweet Lovers Delight Haste Amazement

Book:The Bell

Source: The Bell

“Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system”