Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Quote by Walter Benjamin

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the...

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the...

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to...

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to...

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an...

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an...

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a...

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a...

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the...

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the...

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that...

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that...

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than...

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than...

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The...

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The...

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the...

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the...

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most...

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most...

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as...

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as...

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the...

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the...

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.