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“Pay to go inside Neruda's home A body lies there with no dome. But right there in the front hall Lean a fairy against the icy wall. Oh Endless enigmas had the bard! Nice and large and calm backyard Ends In the middle of a rare room Rare portrait of revelishing gloom. Up climbing at the weird snail stair Does make you grasp for some air. And there's a room with bric-a-brac: Old and precious books all in a pack. Dare saying what I liked most of all? Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!”

Source: ACross Tic

“By 1937 Soviet standards, mementos of Russian history before the 1917 revolution were irrelevant. Even the suggestion that china, jewelry, or furniture created for the imperial palaces of the tsars was worth more than its weight in gold might be construed as anti-Soviet propaganda.”

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Book:American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

Source: American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

“They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with no purpose except to be beautiful or interesting.”

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Book:Sour Heart

Source: Sour Heart

“If the choice is between investment in old masters or an artwork of Raphael Perez, I'd go for the Raphael Perez every time ..”

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Author:Imran Shaikh

“To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours.”

Book:The Wedding People

Source: The Wedding People