Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays And Reflections Quotes
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.
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity.
What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.
