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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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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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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We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
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Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
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Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.
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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
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For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
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Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.
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To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
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To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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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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History breaks down into images, not into stories.
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Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him it is he who lives in them.
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Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
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