“There must also be some random accumulations to enable us to discover unexpected relationships. But serendipity is possible only when recollection is essentially a holding fast to what is meaningful and a release of what is not.”
Kevin A. Lynch
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“Choosing a past helps us to construct a future.”

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“If we examine the feelings that accompany daily life, we find that historic monuments occupy a small place.”

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“To attempt to preserve all of the past would be life-denying.”

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“We prefer a world that can be modified progressively, against a background of valued remains, a world in which one can leave a personal mark alongside the marks of history.”

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