Ah! Le merveilleux d'une maison n'est point qu'elle vous abrite ou vous réchauffe, ni qu'on possède les murs. Mais bien qu'elle ait lentement déposé en nous ces provisions de douceur. Qu'elle forme, dans le fond du coeur, ce massif obscur dont naissent, comme des eaux de source, les songes...
Ah! The wonderful thing about a house is not that it provides warmth and shelter, nor that we possess its walls. It is rather that it has slowly deposited in us stores of sweetness, shaping, deep in the heart, a mysterious bedrock from which dreams emerge, like water from a spring...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Terre des Hommes
Ah oui! Je vois! Ca fait rigoler!
ReplyDeleteHome Sweet Home!
Love it and I'd like to read more of him; I see that Terre des Hommes is still available. Have you read it? I also like your post 'Turn of the 20th Century Interiors'.
ReplyDeleteBTW, 'pied-a-terre' in your sidebar has lost its link.
Mlle: Elle sont de la meme famille!
ReplyDeleteAlaine: Thank you for your help with my sidebar! I'm reading it now, though I might not get through every single chapter.
yes.
ReplyDeletewalls are good.
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Absolutely charming!
ReplyDeleteLovely quotation - and picture. Thanks to you.
ReplyDeleteJe suis bien de cet avis
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