I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.
Walter BenjaminMemory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter BenjaminTag: experience time memory
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter BenjaminTag: experience boredom
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter BenjaminTag: death storyteller
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.
Walter BenjaminTag: prose
The work of memory collapses time.
Walter BenjaminAll the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Walter BenjaminTag: left-handed
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.
Walter BenjaminTag: translation
Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.
Walter BenjaminWhat has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.
Walter BenjaminTag: memory
« prima precedente
Pagina 4 di 8.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.