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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin
Age: 48 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 15
Died: 1940
Died: September 26
Art Critic
Essayist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
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Sociologist
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Berlin
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
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The work of memory collapses time.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
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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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Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.
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It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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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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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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Literature tells very little to those who understand it.
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All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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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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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
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