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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories--those that don't work, those that break down and thos ...
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of t ...
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang f ...
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing ...
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good ...
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans--the used things, warm wi ...
Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.
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