A quote by John Berger
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A quote by John Berger
Baudelaire believed that beauty had two parts. First, timelessness — like the form of a Grecian urn. The other part of beauty is something absolutely fleeting, like a fashionable dandy on the street. - Jerry Saltz
A city in Italy is something different from one in my land. . . . It is not only a place to live, it is also a place to decide,
William Weaver • The Name of the Rose
smoky yellow bistros—of these last, some so small that they were little more than diamond shaped, enclosed corners holding bottles and a zinc-covered counter. At all these points, men, young, old, middle-aged, powerful, powerful even in the various fashions in which they had met, or were meeting, their various ruin; and women, more than making up,
... See moreJames Baldwin • Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)
“They tell me that Buenos Aires had a beginning,” Jorge Luis Borges, the supreme poet of the city, writes in one of his most famous poems, “but to me it is as eternal as water and air.”
James Gardner • Buenos Aires: The Biography of a City
all share a perception of the city as a site of mystery and seek to reveal the true nature that lies beneath the flux of the everyday.