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Walter Benjamin Inspirational Quotes (131)

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It is only for those without hope that hope is given.
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Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
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There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
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You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
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The work of memory collapses time.
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A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.
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The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.
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Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
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For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.
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All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.
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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
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In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.
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To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
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I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.
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For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.
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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.
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Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.
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