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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

~Walter Benjamin

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

~Walter Benjamin

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Critic

Born: July 15th, 1892

Died: September 27th, 1940

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