Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help. - Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin: "Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help."

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Abruptly	Cases	Committed	Cries
Even	Expressed	Help	Music
Nothing	Photograph	Poorer	Selfimmersion
Startled	Stroke	Such	Thought
Truth	Uproar	Wants	Whether
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