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The work is the death mask of its conception.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.
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Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.
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In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.
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In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
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Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.
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You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
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There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Walter Benjamin
Born:
July 15, 1892
Died:
September 26, 1940
(aged 48)
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