Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it's made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme, and to serve its own single purpose. A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul.
 Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943). copy citation

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Author Ayn Rand
Source The Fountainhead
Topic integrity building
Date 1943
Language English
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