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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collectors passion b

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collectors passion borders on the chaos of memories. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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Masses
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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Books
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories — those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. – Daisy Ashford

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My wife gets pampered pretty well. Shes had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning. – Michael Weatherly

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Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. – King Solomon

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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one Im taking with me when I go. – Erma Bombeck

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He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. – Proverb

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