“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.”

Source: La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), Ch. 1

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French writer and philosopher 1884–1962

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