[ walter benjamin Quotes ]
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
[ Debate ]
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
[ Advice ]
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
[ Things and Little Things ]
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
[ Literary Criticism ]
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
[ Giving ]
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
[ Procreation ]
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
[ Public Opinion ]
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
[ Absence ]
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
[ Story and Story-Telling ]
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
[ Photography ]
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
[ Facts ]
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
[ Beauty ]
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
[ Relationships ]
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
[ Awareness ]
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