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The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. . . . Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self . . .

Source: One-Way Street, Chinese Curios, 1928.
-- Walter Benjamin, (Jul 15 1892-1940), German man of letters, aesthetician; He is now considered to have been the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century.

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