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Memory Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- 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…
- Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
- Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
- The work of memory collapses time.
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