House/construction

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or construction:

“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One’s relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)