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Them 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…
- There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego…
- 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…
- 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…
- Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in…
- Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in…
- Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not…
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