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#collect

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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.


Haim Ginott


#collection #each #himself #instant #insults

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.


Julian Barnes


#collecting #reading #life

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.


Edward Gibbon


#book-stores #books #london #reading #life

He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection.


Ayn Rand


#convention #society #life

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.


Walter Benjamin


#order #tension #life

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes


Vladimir Nabokov


#love #memory #recollection #remembrance #love

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.


Terence McKenna


#culture #dreams #history #imagination #dreams

Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.


Vincent Starrett


#men

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money. It is because we are meaning-focused animals rather than simply materialistic ones that we can reasonably contemplate surrendering security for a career helping to bring drinking water to rural Malawi or might quit a job in consumer goods for one in cardiac nursing, aware that when it comes to improving the human condition a well-controlled defibrillator has the edge over even the finest biscuit. But we should be wary of restricting the idea of meaningful work too tightly, of focusing only on the doctors, the nuns of Kolkata or the Old Masters. There can be less exalted ways to contribute to the furtherance of the collective good.... ....An endeavor endowed with meaning may appear meaningful only when it proceeds briskly in the hands of a restricted number of actors and therefore where particular workers can make an imaginative connection between what they have done with their working days and their impact upon others.


Alain de Botton


#collective-good #connections #impact #jobs #meaning






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