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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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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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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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