"My suffering does matter. I can't help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single, tiny entry onto a vastness - how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I've got." -- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
“Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.” -- Georges Duhamel
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." -- Francis Bacon
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." -- Le Corbusier
"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light." -- Hans Hofmann
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." -- Charles Dickens
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too." -- Aldous Huxley
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." -- Joseph Campbell
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts." -- Italo Calvino
"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect." -- Ronald Reagan
Art Photography by Marianne Dow
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