January 2012
34 posts
“This double movement is a profound one: architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”
—Roland Barthes - The Eiffel Tower (via ryanpanos)
“Minimalism is not a lack of something, it’s simply the perfect amount of something.”
—Nicholas Burroughs (via homedesigning)
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity, —it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.”
—Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel (via nubivagantmusings)
