![The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
[Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-sight-of-such-a-monument-is-like-continual-and-stationary-music-which-one-hea.jpg)
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But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity. Bryan Stevenson
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. Cesare Pavese
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We want our music and ideas to be in the forefront, and what we learned permeated our thinking. Notions of film and architecture feed what we see in our minds as we make music. Don Kennedy
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