33 Place Brugmann Quotes

“it’s human energy that’s invigorating. We’re not meant to be alone.”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann

“No one sees anything the same way. When we stop trying to understand how others see the world, when we lose our compassion, our empathy, we become animals. Worse than animals.”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann

“But they can’t bear it, those Greeks. The monument falling, the idea destroyed. It is so central to their understanding of themselves, of who they are, that they make a remarkable decision. They give us bullets. They do. They give us bullets in exchange for the understanding that we Turks won’t topple the Parthenon by gutting the pillars, because what the Greeks understand and we don’t is that so long as the idea lives and the monument that embodies it stands, a lot of people can die, and a civilization will carry on.”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann

“Always on the Sabbath, Papa talking endlessly about ideas and art and religious observance being nonsense, nature being his temple.”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann

“I think Charlotte would have told me to leave him at once, that any man who couldn’t see the future in the present with me alone wasn’t the man who loved me most or best. And Charlotte would have been right.”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann

“that any man who couldn’t see the future in the present with me alone wasn’t the man who loved me most or best. And Charlotte would have been right.”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann

“It was always happening to someone else, until it wasn't, and by then it was too late.”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann

“Everyone's afraid of being caught in the sorting machine of history, ending up in the wrong pile. It's hard to blame them. The way it's going, it won't matter what you believe, what you do. It will be a question of what someone in charge decides you did.”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann

“All the science, all the advancement, it's not progress. It's accelerated regression. We're giving men better weapons to fight, that's all. So much for the future...”
― Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann