"Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?"
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"As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed."
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"I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies."
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"Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works."
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"Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness."
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"It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away."
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"But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life."
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"I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully."
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"The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book."
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"He hath eaten me out of house and home."
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"A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us."
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"In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door."
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"What if the house catches fire?” “Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you’ll go down with the ship. If there’s a tornado, I’ll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?"
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"Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope."
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"Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are."
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"...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here."
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"The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness."
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"Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration."
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"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life."
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"Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?"
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