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1 " Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own. "
― Marcel Proust , Swann's Way
2 " Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary. "
― Jack Vance , Emphyrio
3 " After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. "
