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"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."
Author:     Walter Benjamin Category:     Absence

"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."
Author:     Walter Benjamin Category:     Awareness

"The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command."
Author:     Walter Benjamin Category:     Books and Reading

"These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed."
Author:     Walter Benjamin Category:     Complacency

"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock."
Author:     Walter Benjamin Category:     Giving

"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."
Author:     Walter Benjamin Category:     Past

"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."
Author:     Walter Benjamin Category:     Truth



  


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