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Walter Benjamin Quotes

Walter Benjamin quotes about life

Deutsch Critic, Philosopher July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940

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Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "what draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his..."
what draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that..."
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "The construction of life is at present in the power of facts..."
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical..."
Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order. Walter Benjamin

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