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Quotes from La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) — Gaston Bachelard

1884–1962 France

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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 allows one to dream in peace.

La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958)

The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gaston Bachelard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.