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People are lost. Their feelings are based around material things, and because that doesn't make them happy, they look for something else: bullfighting or soccer, or they go travelling, off to India - and that's not right. You can't just decide, 'I'm going on holiday to India.' Only when God allows you to. You have to ask His permission to go there.
Justo Gallego
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I still have the same beliefs as when I was in the monastery.
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I'm in a happy state. I have no doubts about what I'm doing.
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At first, people thought I was just some kind of kook. But now they see the cathedral, see what I have done, and they are supportive.
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I've had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican's dome. I also got ideas from medieval castles - I've mixed medieval castles with the Romanesque style.
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I've never been with women, because I'm celibate, as ordered by God, as if I were in a monastery. For me, the church is my wife.
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Gaudi was surrounded by the rich folk of Catalonia, I've seen a picture of him with people wearing elegant hats and drinking wine. But that's not like me - I'm on my own.
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When I started to build this cathedral, the word on the street was that I was crazy.
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