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Form Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- 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…
- Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the…
- In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This…
- The distracted person, too, can form habits.
- All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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