Quotes by : Walter Benjamin

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor....

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

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

The work of memory collapses time.

O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has....

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

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming....

The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory,....

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