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«The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
art critic, betraying, coin, inadequate, in a nutshell, nutshell, peddle, slogans, The Critic
«Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
conquers, ecstasy, frenzy, living substance, procreation
«Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
affect, receiver, receivers, shock, to the point
«Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquiring, Books not, dissatisfied, dissatisfying, praiseworthy, the books
«Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
contemporary, hierarchy of, platitudes, profundities, profundity, shallowest
«The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.»
«The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
camera, impulses, introduces, optic, optics, psychoanalysis, unconscious
«Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.»
«Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
gloss, glosses, invisibly, prophetically, rays, text, The Book of Life, ultraviolet
«It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.»
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