As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
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- Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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