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© Liliane Limpens Insight View 15 januari 2017
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| One of the most meaningful activities we are ever engaged in is the creation of a home. | ||
| We need to get home to remember who we are. Our homes have a memorialising function, they are | ||
| helping us to remember, strangely enough, ourselves. Creating a home is frequently such a demanding | ||
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process because it requires us to find our way to objects that can correctly convey our identities. |
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| The quest to build a home is connected up with a need to stabilise and organise our complex selves. | ||
| It’s not enough to know who we are in our own minds. We need something more tangible, | ||
| material and sensuous to pin down the diverse and intermittent aspects of our identities. | ||
| We are not vaunting ourselves; we’re trying to gather our identities in one receptacle, | ||
| preserving ourselves from erosion and dispersal. | ||
| Home means the place where our soul feels that it has found its proper physical container, where, | ||
| everyday, the objects we live amongst quietly remind us of our most authentic commitments and loves. | ||
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Alain de
Botton | The School of Life
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