6 Matching Annotations
- Oct 2015
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apartmentstories2016.files.wordpress.com apartmentstories2016.files.wordpress.com
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To dwell, to be set at peace, means to remain at peace within the free, the preserve, the free sphere that safeguards each thing in its essence.
I'm not sure how much I agree with this part, only because I do not necessarily think that to dwell means that you're at peace. I think there are many more aspects of humanity and civilization that must be taken into account before making a claim such as this.
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- Sep 2015
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bostonography.benschmidt.org bostonography.benschmidt.org
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The openness of a sea is compared to the freedom of a city. Nothing is restricted in either one, however, the density is contradictory to each other.
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newclasses.nyu.edu newclasses.nyu.edu
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It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysteri-ous nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of "living" there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not "live" at Xanadu.
New comers to NY view the city as a dream. Once one lives in the city, miraculous---mundane
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Some years passed, but I still did not lose that sense of wonder about New York. I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing.
anonymity
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Fair ..
NY is temporary--eventually need an escape
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johndevore.tumblr.com johndevore.tumblr.com
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New York City doesn’t love you. Why would think you’re in a relationship with New York? It’s not a boyfriend or a parent. New York will never give you its approval because New York City is too busy being New York City to care about you.
anonymity/loneliness
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