How immensely the world is simplified when tested for its worthiness of destruction. This is the great bond embracing and unifying all that exists.
Walter BenjaminIn the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.
Walter BenjaminThe film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
Walter BenjaminEvery passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory.
Walter BenjaminMan's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else.
Walter BenjaminAnd the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. experts will bear me out when I say that it is the oldest thing in the world. Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?” “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day?
Walter BenjaminFragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel.
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Unlimited goodwill. Suspension of the compulsive anxiety complex. The beautiful "character" unfolds. All of those present become comically iridescent. At the same time one is pervaded by their aura.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Walter BenjaminNo poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.
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