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Only Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
- Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange…
- 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…
- During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception…
- Only for the sake of the hopeless have we been given hope.
- If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-​destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once…
- Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
- Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
- He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to…
- Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go…
- 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.…
- It is only for those without hope that hope is given.
- The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates…
- The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it…
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