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The Archive is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.

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Archive is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.

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Building is not the same as creation — create with the heart; build with the mind.

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Building is the slow and laborious task of years. Destruction can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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A Collection is dead when it is a collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed!.

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A Collection is always more than is necessary. It is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites because it is already too much. The collector's need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It's too much and it's just enough for the collector.

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Debt is about the only thing you can acquire without money.

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