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    Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

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For a man's house is his castle.

For a man's house is his castle.

by Lord Edward Coke Found in: Home Quotes,
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

by Jane Austen Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is home, though it be never so homely.

Home is home, though it be never so homely.

by John Clarke Found in: Home Quotes,
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"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.

"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.

by Helen Rowland Found in: Home Quotes,
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My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world.

My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world.

by Billy Graham Found in: Home Quotes,
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A house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in.

by Le Corbusier Found in: Home Quotes, Houses Quotes,
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The stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
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The stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
O'er all the pleasant land.

by Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans Found in: Home Quotes,
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

by Confucius Found in: Home Quotes,
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My whinstone house my castle is,
I have my own four walls.

My whinstone house my castle is,
I have my own four walls.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Home Quotes,
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