Sydney Opera House/j%c3%b8rn Utzon and His Resignation

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“Opera once was an important social instrument—especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
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“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
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“Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open- eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.”
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