Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
“You know what I think?” she says. “That people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn’t …
Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. ―Milan Kundera, Ignorance
Quote for Today: Frank McCourt
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You’ll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I’m still …
Quote for Today: Carla H. Krueger
To Katie, it was as lonely and secret as any building could be; its size and grandeur meant less to her. She didn’t know or care when the place had …
Quote for Today: Alice Steinbach
I suspected, however, that I wasn’t homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn’t find: the past and all the …
Illuminating Architecture: Projection Mapping and O (Omicron)
We assume that technology will take us into the future, but what happens when it connects us with the past? Hala Stulecia, or Centennial Hall, in Wrocław, often known as …
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish …