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Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise…

An activity gives pleasure insofar as it is congenial to the agent's natural capacities and…

We sought to build a new world, as though Our prolonged leisure was irksome to Us; rich in leisure…

Nature’s direct gift to him is plenty of leisure time. Before he can apply this leisure time…

If the leisure that man has been promised by the machine counts for anything, it must count for the…

Ultimately, the door is what monitors vehicles and various vectors whose breaks of continuity…

Where does the city without gates begin? Probably inside the minds of returning vacationers, taking…

Leisure: Opportunity afforded by freedom from necessary occupations (late 14c.)

Music moves the passions; but poetry does so better, since its verses not only move the soul but…

The savage and the civilised man differ so much in the bottom of their hearts and in their…

And so here and ever since, an unnatural thing happened: Animal skin was put on our human skin. We…

It makes no sense to divide cities into these two species, but rather into another two: those that…

It is also convenient to place the doors in such a manner that they may lead to as many parts of…

Insaisissable et protéiforme, Dionysos ne cesse de l'être à travers les interprétations qu'il…

As cities change and evolve constantly according to their contexts and circumstances and patterns…

Transgression (n.) : late 14th c. from Old French transgression "transgression," particularly that…

Limit (n.) : what determins a domain, what separates two domains.

Réon … From Ancient Greek ῥέων … Present active participle of ῥέω: - to flow … - to propagate … -…

If there is to be a new urbanism it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and…

aftermath noun … the situation that exists as a result of an important (and usually unpleasant)…

If there is to be a new urbanism it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and…

Even when the inventory is large, it remains limited. The bricoleur uses what is at hand because…

The fact that man is capable of action means that the unexpected can be expected from him, that he…

That is, the surprising and delightful moments when a new idea or invention results from the sudden…

By what then are montage and its embryo -the frame- characterized? By collisions. By the conflict…

This is the opposite of the ‘romantic ruin’. Because the buildings don’t fall into ruin after they…

Within the horizons of chance, effects described by the useful terms serendipity and synergism play…