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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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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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Walter Benjamin
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Things, Little Things
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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

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Things, Little Things

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot

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Things, Little Things

I dont look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. – Warren Buffett

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Things, Little Things

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Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer. – Spiro T. Agnew

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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. – Charlie Chaplin

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Beauty

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. – James Dent

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Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. – Author Unknown

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