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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 to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself
and gaze back, an important trick
because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem,
shuttling between the you and I.”
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and gaze back, an important trick
because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem,
shuttling between the you and I.”
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“She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.”
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“For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . . . And if we want to go beyond history, or even, while remaining in history, detach from our own history the always too contingent history of the persons who have encumbered it, we realize that the calendars of our lives can only be established in its imagery.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
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