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Walter Benjamin
July 15, 1892 - September 27, 1940
Nationality: German
Category: Critic
Subcategory: German Critic

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

   

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

   

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

   

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

   

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

   

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

   

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.

   

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

   

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

   

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

   

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