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We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our
inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were,
to dance, and yet to stand upright.
T. S. Eliot I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say \'he feels
deeply, he feels tenderly.\'
Vincent Van Gogh

When we build, let us think that we build forever. -John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --Albert
Einstein