Advent Quote by Harold Speed

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on…

— Susan Sontag

Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by…

— Arthur Davison Ficke

Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

“Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which…

— Will Self

“After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or dish towels,…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Even in prosperous times the living robbed the dead”

— Jocelyn Murray

“In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a…

— Amanda Petrusich

“To be sure, people tend to see only the stubble fields of transitoriness but overlook and forget the full granaries of the past into…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard…

— Quentin Crisp

“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect…

— Paul Auster