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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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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Berlin
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
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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.
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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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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.
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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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History breaks down into images, not into stories.
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Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
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I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.
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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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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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In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.
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Literature tells very little to those who understand it.
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