All Walter Benjamin Quotes
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin
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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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