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Power Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
- 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…
- 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…
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