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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting an

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Walter Benjamin

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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening...http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/109.html

Matthew Arnold, Thyrsis: A Monod

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In the small town each citizen had done something in his own

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Democrat

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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look

I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchron

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Jean Baudrillard

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Edward Hoagland

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Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on r

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

Edward Hoagland

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has fou

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

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