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The religious inebriation of big cities.--Pantheism.
I am everyone; everyone is me.
Whirlwind.
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marv ...
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effec ...
Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New Yo ...
For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it, ...
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more. But to lose oneself in a ...
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an ...
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
For Cambridge people rarely smile,
Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
There they are.
Thirty at the corner.
Black raw, ready.
Sores in the city
that do not want to heal.
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