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Day Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.…
- The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul…
- Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
- Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way…
- The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster