8 quotes found
“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”
“I'm collecting for God. Can you spare a smile?”
“Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while”
“It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.”
“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 sense of well-being than... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relation...”
“The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking...”
“Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.”
“Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.”
