On whatever theoretical horizon we examine it, the house image would appear to have become the topography of our intimate being.
Bachelard - Poetics of Space
Indeed, here we touch upon a converse whose images we shall have to explore; all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home.
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In short, in the most interminable of dialectics, the sheltered being gives perceptible limits to his shelter. He experiences the house in its reality and in its virtuality, by means of thought and dreams. It is no longer in its positive aspects that the house is really "lived," nor is it only in the passing hour that we recognize its benefits. An entire past comes to dwell in a new house.
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