Quynh

“It is a great misfortune to have a heart,” said Kitty, with a smile.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Whisper your dream to a cloud.
Ask the cloud to remember it.”
― Yoko Ono

“city’ meant two different things – one a physical place, the other a mentality compiled from perceptions, behaviours and beliefs.”
― Richard Sennett, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

“In cultural production, Levi-Strauss famously declares, food is both good to eat (bonne a manger) and good to think with (bonne a penser). He means this literally: cooking food begets the idea of heating for other purposes; people who share parts of a cooked deer begin to think they can share parts of a heated house; the abstraction "he is a warm person" (in the sense of "sociable") then becomes possible to think.14 These are domain shifts.”
― Richard Sennett, The Craftsman