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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
All disgust is originally disgust at touching (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
It is only for those without hope that hope is given (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
What has been forgotten... is never something purely individual (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The distracted person, too, can form habits (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Only for the sake of the hopeless have we been given hope (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
History breaks down in images not into stories (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
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 (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them. (Walter Benjamin Quotes)