“Before all else I learned that these playthings were not mere idle trifles invented by manufacturers and dealers for the purpose of gain. They were, on the contrary, a little or, rather a big world, authoritative and beautiful, many sided, containing a multiplicity of things all of which had the one and only aim of serving love, refining the senses, giving life to the dead world around us, endowing it in a magical way with new instruments of love, from powder and scent to the dancing show, from ring to cigarette case, from waist-buckle to handbag.”

- Hermann Hesse’s “Steppenwolf”