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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a
famous city.
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a
famous city.
Petite ville, grand renom.
Small town, great renown.
Petite ville, grand renom.
Small town, great renown.
That is the way to lay the city flat,
To bring the roof to the foundation,
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That is the way to lay the city flat,
To bring the roof to the foundation,
And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruin.
Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.
Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous
Dark beauty flowering under veils,
Trapped in the spectrum of read more
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous
Dark beauty flowering under veils,
Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:
A village like an instinct left to rust,
Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
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I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.
What is the city but the people?
What is the city but the people?
