It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live
after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude

On the magic of a cities:

The magic of a great city comes from the enormous specialization of human effort there. Only a city such as New York can support a restaurant where you can eat chocolate-covered ants, or buy three-hundred-year-old books of poems, or find a Caribbean steel band playing with American Folk singers.

— Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language

thedizzyprocession:

I love Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits. They are so oddly beautiful. 

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