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But this lake, even though it allows happiness to exist, is much closer to tears. If you have tears, you can feel them at the sight of the lake, or of the wind ruffles on the surface of the water. Its very existence in the school even allows your tears.

The physical environment of the lake at Eishin campus creates a space where sadness can surface, unlike a typical asphalt playground.

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What I aim for is, most concretely, sadness. I try to make the volume of the building so that it carries in it all feeling. To reach this feeling, I try to make the building so that it carries my eternal sadness. It comes, as nearly as I can in a building, to the point of tears.
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The explicit artistic goal: to shape space so that it evokes tears, the most direct route to the I.

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This sadness of tears, when I reach it, is also joy. ... What makes it sad is that it comes closest, in the physical concrete beams and columns and walls, as close as possible, to the fact of my existence on this earth.claim0.824
The ultimate sadness is not miserable but a profound acknowledgment of existence, which is both sad and joyful.
The quality of 'tears,' the sadness that necessarily characterizes all living art, is inherent in the geometry, it is not only an emotion, but is a character of the geometry itself.claim0.788
Sadness is not subjective feeling alone but a structural property of the geometry.
The things we like from the heart make us feel wholesome when we are near them.claim0.780
First numbered assertion about deep liking.
The so-definite fact of this sadness which enters things, and the fact that through this sadness we—all of us, I, you, and the person I have never known—all experience life in those things—it is hard to believe that it is only a trick or a mental state.claim0.776
The intersubjective reality of the sadness effect argues against its being merely psychological; it points to an objective quality.
One lake feels more alive than another—a clear mountain lake feels more alive than a stagnant pond.claim0.774
Evidence that the feeling of life varies among non‑living physical systems.
We experience an intense feeling of life in many traditional artifacts and works of art, from Minoan vases to Persian bowls.claim0.766
Central aesthetic claim illustrated by the picture sequence in section 7.
When you make a beautiful thing, you feel happy for days; when you make something ugly, you may be depressed for days.claim0.766
The feeling a place presents to us is a measure of its life.claim0.765
Epistemological claim that phenomenological response is the primary yardstick for evaluating living structure.