He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.... He must not be afraid to return again and
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Walter Benjamin quotes
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Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography.... For autobiography has to do with time, with seque
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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more. But to lose oneself in a
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medi
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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhil
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Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannie
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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
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