ALAIN DE BOTTON
The Architecture of Happiness

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

ALAIN DE BOTTON
The Architecture of Happiness

What we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistently available to us, the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto.

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THE BURNED BARNS
[Les granges brûlées]
Jean Chapot
France, 1973

ALAIN DE BOTTON

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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, when people were surrounded by images of religious piety.