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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Form follows beauty. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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