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Time Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- 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…
- All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as…
- It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not…
- Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the…
- There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
- The work of memory collapses time.
- 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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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle