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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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
Literary Historian
Philosopher
Sociologist
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Berlin
Germany
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
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The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.
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The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
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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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The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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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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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
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All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.
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You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.
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During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well
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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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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
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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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