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To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

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In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

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What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

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Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
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Walter Benjamin

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:
  1. Arcades Project
  2. The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928)
  3. Berlin childhood around 1900
  4. One-way street, and other writings
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