10 notable quotes by walter benjamin
- Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
- There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
- How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
- Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.
- It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.
- You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps – his tastes, his interest, his habits.
- Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.
- In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.
- Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
- Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.
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