A Few Collectors
By: Pierre Le-Tan
3.78
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A charming book by beloved Parisian artist Pierre Le-Tan, filled with dazzling illustrations and in…
Want to Read $ 15.57"The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace."-Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors
"Since then...I have continued to practice the only sport that suits me. Almost everything attracts me, from archaeology to Islam to Asia and drawings from all eras... The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace."-Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors
"I have owned, I confess, thousands of objects. Even if today most of them are nothing more than memories, I continue to seek, to find, to acquire. Acquisition, being, for some mysterious reason, the most important act, like a gambler throwing dice. The idea of speculation has never crossed my mind, nor of "decoration." Collecting is for me both essential and completely useless."-Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors
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3.53
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
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"Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Người ta không già đi. Với những năm tháng trôi qua, nhiều người và nhiều thứ rốt cuộc trở nên hài hước và nực cười đến mức bạn ném vào họ và vào chúng một cái nhìn trẻ con."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
2. My Prizes: An Accounting
By: Thomas Bernhard , Carol Brown Janeway
4.55
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By: Deborah Levy
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By: Laura Cumming
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3.95
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4.37
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3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
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"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
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"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
25. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
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4.57
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3.59
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30. The Vanished Collection
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3.49
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
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31. A Few Collectors
By: Pierre Le-Tan
3.78
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A charming book by beloved Parisian artist Pierre Le-Tan, filled with dazzling illustrations and in… read more
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"The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace."-Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors
"Since then...I have continued to practice the only sport that suits me. Almost everything attracts me, from archaeology to Islam to Asia and drawings from all eras... The books have never stopped acc…"-Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors
"I have owned, I confess, thousands of objects. Even if today most of them are nothing more than memories, I continue to seek, to find, to acquire. Acquisition, being, for some mysterious reason, the …"-Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors
