Conviction Quote by Walter Benjamin

“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”

Walter Benjamin

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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

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For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

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