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• From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Annoyed, Enemy

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.21

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• An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Courage, Believe, Oysters

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.369

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• . . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers.

  Vincent de Paul

  Prayer, Order, Practice

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

  Franz Marc

  Art, Mind, Guarantees

  "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.

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• The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside

  Bruno Dumont

  Reflection, Landscape, Scene

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Vocabulary, Names, Psychology

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• I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

  Jason Mraz

  Journey, Weakness, World

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• Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Buttons, Cameras

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• If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Portions, Interiors

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• I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Heart, Rude

  Song: Heart Of Gold

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• The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

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• What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

  Tony Hale

  Beautiful, White, House

  "Tony Hale Talks Being a Body Man in ‘Veep’ and the Return of Buster Bluth" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Eye, Expression, Voice

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• A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

  Gottfried Bohm

  Space, Dignity, Building

  Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”

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• Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?

  John Paul Caponigro

  Mirrors, Long, Gestalt

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• There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Clothes, Bags

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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• Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

  Thomas Merton

  Light, Silence, Soul

  "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1956.

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• The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Men, Details

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.260

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• Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Fall, Taken

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

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• nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Thinking, Practice

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.365

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• I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.

  Jim Dine

  Artist, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

  James Hollis

  World, Faces, Refuse

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• I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

  David Bezmozgis

  Thinking, Tough, Circumstances

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?

  Miranda July

  Character, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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