Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest. - Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin: "Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest."

Walter Benjamin's Quotations

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Banal	Bars	Calls	City
Cracking	Different	Feet	Find
Forest	Ignorance	Kiosks	Lose
Loses	Must	Names	Nothing
Ones	Oneself	Passersby	Quite
Requires	Roofs	Schooling	Signboard
Speak	Street	Twig	Under
Uninteresting	Wanderer

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