A house is a machine for living in.

Une maison est une machine à habiter.

Le Corbusier

Toward an Architecture

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Topic

Houses Home Architecture

Author

Le Corbusier

Source

Toward an Architecture

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Architect

From

Switzerland Europe

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Original Citation

Corbusier, Le. Vers une Architecture. Editions G. Crès et Cie., 1923.

Current Citation

Corbusier, Le. Toward an Architecture. Getty Research Institute, 2007.

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The average man doesn't want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

H.L. Mencken

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Topic
Downsides of freedom Freedom vs. safety Safety

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H.L. Mencken
Source
Notes on Democracy
Genre
Political literature
Language
English
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Mencken, H. L. Notes on Democracy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, pt. 3, ch. 1.

Another quote about Home

He saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Home

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Kenneth Grahame
Source
The Wind in the Willows
Medium
Novel
Genre
Children's literature
Language
English
Time
1908 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 5.

Another quote originally in French

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

The Poetics of Space

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Topic
Houses Home

Author

Gaston Bachelard
Source
The Poetics of Space
Language
French
Time
1958 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Bachelard, Gaston. La Poetique de l'Espace [The Poetics of Space]. Presses Universitaires de France, 1948, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 1.

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It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

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Topic
Things get better Hard times

Author

Thomas Fuller (churchman)
Source
A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1650 1650s 17th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Fuller, Thomas. A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon. London: John Williams, 1650.