He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.
Source: One-Way Street, Madame Ariane --Second Courtyard on the Left, 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.