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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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A Cemetery is the only place where people never complain about the weather.

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A Cemetery is a place that would be way more interesting if they put the cause of death on all of the headstones.

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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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An Heirloom is some old thing nobody liked well enough to wear out.

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