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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin
Age: 48 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 15
Died: 1940
Died: September 26
Art Critic
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Literary Critic
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Berlin
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
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In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.
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I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.
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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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The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
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Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
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