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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

~Anita Diament

Topics: Cathedral Dining Dining Room Family Heart Raised Room Sabbath Up Weekly

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I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: Between Cathedral Earth Forest Grew Heaven Like Place Protected Room Up

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Bearing Cathedral Ceases Him Image Man Moment Pile Rock Single Single Man Within

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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: About Cathedral Define Essential Him Man Men Nothing Qualities Say Seek Speak Stones

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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Above Came Cathedral Ceiling Chance Dame Far First First Impression Gothic Head Impression Light Lofty Long Notre Dame Random Religious Remember Scene Shall Solemn Stained Still Streets Through Walking Windows Within

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In Montreal, when I grew up, I'd go to the Notre-Dame Basilica, a gorgeous cathedral in town. I'd listen to huge symphony orchestras, Pavarotti singing operas; that was absolutely marvelous. I like that aspect of the cathedral, the spectacle.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Absolutely Aspect Cathedral Go Gorgeous Grew Huge Like Listen Marvelous Montreal Operas Orchestra Singing Spectacle Symphony Town Up

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For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

~Diane Paulus

Topics: About Awe Bigger Cathedral Definition Edge Feeling Go Going Larger Look Lost Me Ocean Oneself People Reason Something Spectacle Than Themselves Why

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I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am.

~Diego Della Valle

Topics: Am America Because Bought Cathedral Could Day Dreamt First First Time Investment Like Man Me Never Now One Day Part Personal Retail Seemed Time Young Young Man I Am

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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Architecture Beam Behind Building Cathedral Occasionally Post Setting Something Sometimes

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I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Arthur Beloved Cathedral Chapel Chosen City Distant Father Grew His Hours Island Mountain Mountains New New Zealand Parents Pass Proximity Saddle South Spiritual Touchstone Two Up Village Wild Worn Zealand

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