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What does it mean?
Unfinished projects can serve as perfect symbols because they can never be ruined.
In plain terms
Ideas stay pure when they are not built and destroyed.
What can you take from it?
Idealism sometimes remains stronger in imagination than in reality.

Where it applies

  • architectural planning
  • project management
  • art history

Putting it to work

  • documenting plans
  • preserving drafts
  • teaching theory

Questions to consider

  • What ideal do you refuse to build?
  • Does completion ruin an idea?

Another view

Unbuilt projects offer no tangible benefit to society.

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