#affinities

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

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Beauty is everywhere a very welcome guest. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. ↗

— Louis Kahn

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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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