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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

~Walter Benjamin

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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

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

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Critic

Born: July 15th, 1892

Died: September 27th, 1940

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