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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not o

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo

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In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. – Alain Robert

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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. – Tadao Ando

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I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. – Daniel Libeskind

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