I saw that, of the two natures that
contended in the field of my consciousness,
even if I could rightly be said to be either,
it was only because I was radically both.
-Robert Louis Stevenson,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Old
(Notre Dame)
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Elective Affinities, 1808 |
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The New
(The Pompidou)
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. -Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, 1843 (I thought the three white "vents" in the lower left corner appeared as an amusing "echo" to the street lamps in the previous picture...) |
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The Old
(celing, Sainte-Chapelle)
I hope I never get so old I get religious. -Ingmar Bergman, International Herald Tribune, 1989 |
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The New
(escalators, The Pompidou)
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. -James Randi, Observer (The transparent Pompidou is, again, an amusing "echo" of the famed glass church -- Sainte Chapelle in the previous picture...) |
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The Old Facing the New
(Notre Dame)
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. -Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly, 1509 |
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The New Over the Old (Eiffel Tower)
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The New in the Old
(the Louvre)
The best part of the the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. -Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1955 |