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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allow...more

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Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives...more

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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we hav...more

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Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks a...more

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Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

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Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed...more

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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dw...more

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When the image is new, the world is new.

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Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures m...more

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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images....more

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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too ...more

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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwe...more

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Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.