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From Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
- The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
- 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…
- The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which…
- Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth…
- He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to…
- A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from…
- Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.…
- Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].
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