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Quotation by Walter Benjamin
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German critic, philosopher. "Theses on the Philosophy of History," no. 5, Illuminations (1955), ed. Hannah Arendt (1968).
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