Tao se odvija sam po sebi, ne čineći ništa; stoga nema događaja koji on ne obuhvaća.
Ako bi kraljevi i prinčevi upravljali zemljom na takav način, sve stvari bi se odvijale ispravno.
Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Svaki bi ponovni dolazak u Veneciju samo još više produbio moj osjećaj njene nestvarnosti. Silueta grada u izmaglici lagune spojena s prekooceanskim cruiserima titrala bi poput fatamorgane van vremena i prostora. Idući dojam, ušavši konačno u sam grad, izmjenjivao bi se između melankolije i nestajanja, tako sjajno uhvaćene u Viscontijevoj adaptaciji knjige Thomasa Mana Smrt u Veneciji, i dekadencije i perverzije, koju je Fellini portretirao u svom filmu "Casanova". Venecijanski umjetnički i arhitektonski bijenale nastavak je te magične realnosti grada koji poput fantomskog ukletog broda pluta onkraj vremena.
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The Tao proceedeth by its own nature, doing nothing; therefore there is no doing which it comprehendeth not.
If kings and princes were to govern in this manner, all things would operate aright by their own motion.
Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Every repeated visit to Venice would but deepen my sense of its unreality. The city’s silhouette in the lagoon mist together with trans-ocean cruisers, would flicker like a mirage, outside time and space. The next impression, having finally entered the city itself, would alternate between melancholy and disappearance,
so aptly captured in Visconti’s adaptation of the book by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, and decadence and perversion,
portrayed by Fellini in his film Casanova. The Venetian Art and Architectural Biennale is a continuation of this magical reality of a city which, like a phantom haunted ship, floats beyond time.
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