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" In order to gain mastery, you need to dismantle as much as you put together.'
'Then there'd be no buildings left in the world,' Jahan ventured. 'Everything would be razed to the ground.'
'We are not destroying the buildings, son. We are destroying our desire to possess them. Only God is the owner. Of the stone and of the skill. "

Elif Shafak , The Architect's Apprentice


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Elif Shafak quote : In order to gain mastery, you need to dismantle as much as you put together.'<br />'Then there'd be no buildings left in the world,' Jahan ventured. 'Everything would be razed to the ground.'<br />'We are not destroying the buildings, son. We are destroying our desire to possess them. Only God is the owner. Of the stone and of the skill.