
“The home is one’s very first universe, one’s cosmos. If life begins well, it is because it begins by being enclosed, protected, wrapped warmly in the heart of the home. Before being thrown into the world, the newborn is laid in a cradle, enveloped by warmth. So it is no wonder that home ever after appears in our dreams as a great cradle of well-being, in which to be is truly to be well! […]
“Beyond any actual building and beyond the actual facts of our childhood, there lives in each of us, in the deepest reaches of our being, an imaginary home: a place of intimacy and comfort, of light and of warmth. Thanks to this place, we have the sense of being sheltered from cold and heat, from storm and rain – protected from the night and all those other, unknown forces.” Eric Volant, La maison des rêveries