Thus we cover the universe with drawings we have lived. These drawings need not be exact. They need only be tonalized on the mode of our inner space...These virtues of shelter are so simple, so deeply rooted in our unconscious that they may be recaptured through mere mention, rather than thorough minute description. [...] To describe them would be like showing them to visitors. We can perhaps tell everything about the present, but about the past!

Gaston Bachelard , Poetics of Space

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