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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

~Walter Benjamin

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

~Walter Benjamin

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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

~Walter Benjamin

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Critic

Born: July 15th, 1892

Died: September 27th, 1940

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