A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man conte

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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