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In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin
Age: 48 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 15
Died: 1940
Died: September 26
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What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.
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Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
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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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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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The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
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As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.
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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.
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The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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History breaks down into images, not into stories.
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As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
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