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most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires, and dears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else."

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"The stage is like a magnifying glass. Everything tends toward exaggeration"

Anna Pavlova

"Architecture, the most useful of the arts, belongs to the passerby"

George Sitwell

"If the scheme has no air of permanence, if it preaches the uncertainty of life and the uselessness of effort - the cup of beauty it offers will be tainted with sadness. - In a garden, a new character is put upon the individual. Instead of life's double face, every shadow is a friend. -

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The garden is inimical to all evil passions: it stands for efficiency, for patience in labor, for strength in adversity, for the power to forgive."

on the Making of Gardens by George Sitwell

We need not be told that life is never going to be free from trouble and that there are no subsitutes for the dead; but it is a fact as well as a mystery that weakness is power, that handicap is proficiency, that the scar is a credential, that indignation is no adversary for gratitude, or heroism for joy. There are medicines.

Predilections p13 Marianne Moore.

The People of Crete made more history than they can consume locally. - Saki

Being God is no bed of roses. - Father Divine

I don't like work no man does - but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know. - Joseph Conrad.