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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Walter Benjamin

Born: July 15, 1892
Died: September 26, 1940 (aged 48)
Bio: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic.
Known for:
- Arcades Project
- The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928)
- Berlin childhood around 1900
- One-way street, and other writings
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