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‘Every passion borders on the chaotic,’ wrote Walter Benjamin in his essay ‘Unpacking My Library’ (1931), ‘but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories’. The collector of books, artworks, or miscellaneous trinkets, Benjamin thought, is at the mercy of the sheer variety of things out there. Once part of a collection, however, the collector relives their love for those things just by looking at them. – 沃尔特·本杰明（Walter Benjamin）在他的文章《解开我的图书馆》（Unpacking My Library）（1931）中写道：“每种激情都近乎于混乱，但收藏家的激情却近乎于记忆的混乱。”本杰明想，收藏书籍、艺术品或杂项小饰品的人，完全听任各种各样的东西摆布。然而，一旦收藏品的一部分，收藏家通过看它们来重新体验他们对这些事物的热爱。