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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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. – Walter Benjamin

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I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and Ill show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. – Lawrence D. Bell

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. – Fulton J. Sheen

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I am not a has-been. I am a will be. – Lauren Bacall

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Chance is a nickname of Providence. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort) (c.1740–1794), translated from Fren

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Diplomacy: The art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock. – Wynn Catlin

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