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Total quotes: 5

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Walter Benjamin

Birthname

AKA: Walter Benjamin

Birthday: July 15, 1892

Birthplace: Berlin, German Empire

Death: September 26, 1940

Educated At: Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich

Manner of Death: Suicide

Nationality: Germany

Occupations: Essayist, Sociologist, Translator, Art Critic, Literary Critic

Total quotes: 5

“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”

— Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street

“For only the more feeble and distracted take an inimitable pleasure in closure, feeling that there lives have been given back to them.”

— Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street

“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

— Walter Benjamin, Illuminations

Tagged: Part and Parcel, All Connected, Connectionism, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

“The Latin word textum means 'web.'”

— Walter Benjamin, Illuminations

Tagged: Word Orgins, Understanding the Web

“We know that in his work Proust did not describe a life as it actually was, but a life as it was remembered by the one who had lived it. And yet even this statement is imprecise and far too crude. For the important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection.”

— Walter Benjamin, Illuminations

Tagged: Narrative Fallacy, The Beauty of Narrative, How Memory Works, The Fiction of Living

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