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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

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Give me love and work - these two only.

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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

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I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

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No man is good enough to be another's master.

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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

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I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Designer

Born: March 24th, 1834

Died: October 3rd, 1896

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