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Literary Historian Inspirational Quotes (5894)

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You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
Walter Benjamin
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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.
Walter Benjamin
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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.
Walter Benjamin
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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
Walter Benjamin
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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.
Walter Benjamin
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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.
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If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
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By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.
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Literature tells very little to those who understand it.
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Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.
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Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.
Walter Benjamin
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