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Walter Benjamin
The book borrower...
The book borrower . . . proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he...
Every passion borders...
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of...
Boredom is the...
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him...
Work on good...
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a...
Genuine polemics approach...
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Source:...
Each morning the...
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of...
The camera introduces...
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious...
He who asks...
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand...
He who observes...
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no...
It is precisely...
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to...
The power of...
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. . . . Only the copied text thus commands...
All human knowledge...
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Source: Letter, 9 Dec. 1923;...
Nothing is poorer...
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad...
The art of...
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying...
The art of...
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism...