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Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German literary critic, philosopher, social critic, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

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Walter Benjamin

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

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Walter Benjamin

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

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Walter Benjamin

Memory 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.

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Walter Benjamin

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

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Walter Benjamin

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

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Walter Benjamin

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

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Walter Benjamin