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“architecture cannot express specific emotions that are manifested in particular organs. Nor should it try to do so. Its object remains the great existential feelings, the emotions that posit the stable and constant condition of the body”

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“The reality is that we are bodies born from other bodies, bodies feeding other bodies, bodies having sex with other bodies, bodies seeking a shoulder to lean or cry on, bodies traveling long distances to be close to other bodies, and so on. Would life be worth living without these connections and the emotions they arouse? How happy would we be, especially given that happiness, too, is an emotion?”