Levi Strauss quotes

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. (Levi Strauss)
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions. View quote
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Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. View quote
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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. View quote
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Gifts make slaves. View quote
Levi Strauss