“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”
“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. ”
“In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air.”
“He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.”
“Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.”
“In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.”