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Unlimited goodwill. Suspension of the compulsive anxiety complex. The beautiful character unfolds. All of those present become comically iridescent. At the same time one is pervaded by their aura. (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation. (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things. (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. (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Death is the sanction of everything the story teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but it's theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The art of storytelling is reaching it's end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
In the world’s structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the (Walter Benjamin Quotes)