Quotes about Collecting

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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books. — Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper
I'm collecting for God. Can you spare a smile? — Anthony T.Hincks
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace
There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by colle — José Saramago, All the Names
I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of exper — Tom Carter, China: Portrait of a People
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot r — Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse
No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime – in my plan, there is no place fo — Kyoko Yoshida
Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his pla — Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight wi — Vincent Starrett, Books and Bipeds
Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while — Bob Dylan
I wanted to pretend for just a little longer that I was whole again. Happy. Then I'd figure out how to pick up the piece — L.A. Fiore, Collecting the Pieces
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. — Anatole France
She had collected experiences, I realized, as much as she had collected all these things. As we moved her out of her own — Jenny Moore
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, — Phillip Lopate, The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantom — Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sen — Walter Benjamin
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activ — E.A. Bucchianeri
Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities on Deanna, all moder — Christina Engela, Loderunner