Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Quote by Walter Benjamin

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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...

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...

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of...

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of...

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make...

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make...

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.

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...

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

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

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

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...

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...

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but...

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but...

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...

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

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...

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

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...

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom,...

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom,...

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one...

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one...

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end...

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end...