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“Les objets anciens avaient des histoires à raconter, et elle se sentait comme une passeuse, une gardienne de leurs secrets.”

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Book:Les murmures de la Toile: Un thriller psychologique court, entre amour et secrets (Léa Moreau enquêtrice de secrets t. 1)
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“Auntie Zee’s room was a wondrous kaleidoscope of color: scarfs and tapestries were draped over the walls, while mobiles made of prisms dangled from the ceiling. Gold, silver, and blue pillows were piled on the bed beneath a ruby-and-emerald-colored canopy. Multicolored rugs covered the honey-colored floor. Every surface was stacked with treasures: boxes carved from seashells; tiny sculptures of creatures that shouldn’t exist, like dragons and centaurs; little paintings that hung on the wall depicting worlds with impossibly high waterfalls, many moons, and castles. Coming inside, Calisa saw one etching of the labyrinth with its bone guards. These were souvenirs of her travels. Or perhaps gifts from visiting travelers. She’d made her room a shrine to all the wonders that the nexus could bring. She loves this place.”

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Book:The Faraway Inn
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“Melancholy pervades me every time I enter a souvenir shop. I have been to many of them around the world. I try not to buy anything for multiple reasons. One of them is because I find the way souvenir shops represent a country or a culture problematic, to say the least. The items you find there are almost always either much better or much worse than the way locals do things. Each item is glorified or trivialized – depending on the taste of the manufacturer and the demand of the buyers. They are always designed to give you a presumed idyllic and warm feeling about the country from which you buy them. In reality, many locals strive to get close to owning some of the items displayed in souvenir shops. Moreover, even if locals use items like those displayed, their daily lives are never as romantic and as smooth as the feeling you get in these shops. In a sense, then, souvenir shops are places where people and their cultures are objectified and romanticized par excellence. Their human joys are amplified. Their grand sorrows are downplayed or buried altogether. Their real histories are either erased or diluted at best. Nevertheless, I confess to you, I always end up buying honey. Perhaps because bees represent life to me. Perhaps because I find that healthy bees and wildlife speak volumes about the overall health of a place and its people?”

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Author:Louis Yako
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“J'aimais l'odeur de la maison, un mélange d'huile de lin, de lavande séchée et de feu de cheminée. Quand on revenait de nos vacances, nos habits étaient imprégnés de ce parfum un peu sauvage de campagne, et j'essayais toujours de ne pas mettre tous mes vêtements à laver au retour pour pouvoir garder cette délicieuse odeur plus longtemps. C'était pour moi celle du bonheur et de la liberté. Quand je fermais les yeux, parfois, comme appuyant sur un bouton mystérieux, j'arrivais à la restituer, mais de manière si fugace que cela me serrait le cœur.”

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Book:Un été en liberté
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“C'est peut-être cela, vieillir. Commencer à voir les portes se fermer l'une après l'autre. Un beau matin, nous nous levons et nous nous apercevons qu'une porte que nous avions laissée ouverte en nous couchant s'est refermée durant la nuit. Pour la rouvrir, macache ! Elle est vérrouillée de l'intérieure, la clef dans la serrure, avec le bruit des pas qui s'éloignent de l'autre côté, les souvenirs. La dernière porte, c'est toujours une porte de chambre.”

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Book:Nouvelles à ne pas y croire
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“The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.”

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Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren
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“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

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Book:Roger Ebert's Video Companion
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“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”

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Author:Peter Weiss
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“Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.”

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Author:Jean Baudrillard
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“It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.”

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Author:Seth Godin
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“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh
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