Special Dictionary / Quotations / Walter Benjamin
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46 Quotations of Walter Benjamin.
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the sam ...2.
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit ...3.
Books and harlots have their quarrels in pu ...4.
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the ...5.
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wi ...6.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed h ...7.
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, ...8.
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the ...9.
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains mo ...10.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices ...11.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of s ...12.
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation ...13.
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashi ...14.
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man dig ...15.
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make ...16.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that ...17.
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of pro ...18.
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the me ...19.
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ...20.
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing ...| Next Page >> |
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