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“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.”
― Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
― Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
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“Thus the dream house must possess every virtue. How ever spacious, it must also be a cottage, a dove-cote, a nest, a chrysalis. Intimacy needs the heart of a nest. Erasmus, his biographer tells us, was long "in finding a nook in his fine
house in which he could put his little body with safety.
He ended by confining himself to one room until he could breathe the parched air that was necessary to him. ”
― The Poetics of Space
house in which he could put his little body with safety.
He ended by confining himself to one room until he could breathe the parched air that was necessary to him. ”
― The Poetics of Space
Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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317 books
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296 books
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60 books
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