Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn. - Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin: "Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn."

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Abortion	Advantage	Beautiful	Block
Comparable	Compulsion	Full	Future
Hewn	Image	Knocked	Limbs
Lived	Must	Need	Nothing
Ones	Past	Precious	Present
Sprung	Statue	Transit	View
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