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Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes it...

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

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... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which surviv...

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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Her father dropped her off in front of the place where she was to live and left the engine running. ...

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I’m relieved to seethat even brilliant physicists make mistakes.”Kohler looked over. “What do you me...

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It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's ...

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, ...

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Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out ...

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all w...

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The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ri...

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Italo CalvinoSix Memos For The Next Millennium

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects...

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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in...

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