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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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
Germany
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
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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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Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.
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It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.
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No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
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