What is the exact wording and source for Gaston Bachelard’s quote about the house sheltering daydreaming (from The Poetics of Space)?

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The quote is rendered exactly as follows:
'If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day‐dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.'[10]

This quotation is attributed to Gaston Bachelard in his work The Poetics of Space, and you can find it listed on Wikiquote and reproduced on Allauthor’s quote page.[12]


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