There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, clocks, sport shirts, autographs, stones, clay figurines, empty beverage cans, little angels, cacti, opera programmes, lighters, pens, owls, music boxes, bottles, bonsai trees, paintings, mugs, pipes, glass obelisks, ceramic ducks, old toys, carnival masks, and they probably do so out of something that we might call metaphysical angst, perhaps because they cannot bear the idea of chaos being the one ruler of the universe, which is why, using their limited powers and with no divine help, they attempt to impose some order on the world, and for a short while they manage it, but only as long as they are there to defend their collection, because when the day comes when it must be dispersed, and that day always comes, either with their death or when the collector grows weary, everything goes back to its beginnings, everything returns to chaos.
José SaramagoStichwörter: death chaos order hobbies collecting
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
Orhan PamukStichwörter: love time nostalgia space museum collecting
To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.
Julian BarnesStichwörter: reading books collecting
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: truth lies stories balance years collecting at-the-heart-of-the-story more-terrible old-woman sadder
I call it guerilla TV.
Marsha Bemko Producer of Antiques RoadshowStichwörter: collecting antiques reality-television killer-stuff-and-tons-of-money
You can keep a piece of candy in its wrapper for up to twenty years. After that, it turns into a hideous black goo.
Darlene LaceyStichwörter: candy collecting
Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.
Vincent StarrettStichwörter: reading books collecting
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