Fruit Quote by Walter Benjamin

“The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.”

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All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

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“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely…

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“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man. One might, for example, speak of an unforgettable life or moment even if all men had forgotten it. If the nature of such a life or moment required that it be unforgotten, that predicate would not…

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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

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“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.”

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative…

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

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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…

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Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

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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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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 the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around…

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“On the third day, she smelled the fruit as soon as she came in. She followed the scent to the kitchen, and the peach was radiant, dusky rose and gold, its skin so plush she thought her fingertip might bruise it. This was the day, the very hour to eat- and she had come prepared, but she didn't want Concepcion…

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart…

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You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation…

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Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness,…

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A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

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The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

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In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence…

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I eat healthy most of the time. Whole foods are the best for you when you are super active, so I get plenty of…

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While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with…

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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a…

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The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to…

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