#precious – @nickkahler on Tumblr

The discovery of the sea is a precious experience that bears thought. Seeing the oceanic horizon is indeed anything but a secondary experience; it is in fact an event in consciousness of underestimated consequences.

Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love.

Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947

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Something has been made precious by being surrounded by glass, in a vitrine, or framed and on the wall.

Steve Brudniak, “On Musea,” 2012

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For at that time everything which was not I, the earth and other people, appeared to me more precious, more important, endowed with a more real existence than they appear to grown men.

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way, 1913-27

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