“ Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. ”
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“ Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history... There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. ”
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“ Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
“ God's transcendence is at an end. But he is not dead; he has been incorporated into human existence. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ”
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“ Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ”
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“ How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ”
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“ We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations. ”
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“ Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. ”
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“ The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. ”
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“ Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance — nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city — as one loses oneself in a forest — that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance — nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city — as one loses oneself in a forest — that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. ”
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