Quotations from “Chapter 2: Intimacy and Privacy” in Witold Rybczynski´s Home: A Short History of an Idea (1987)
“Homliness is not neatness. Otherwise everyone would live in replicas of the kinds of sterile and impersonal homes that appear in interior-design and architectural magazines.”
“Can people really live without clutter?”
“Words are important. Language is not just a medium, like a water pipe, it is a reflection of how we think.”
“Religiosity and avarice, delicacy and cruelty, luxury and squalor, asceticism and eroticism existed side by side.”
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