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Walter Benjamin (1892 – 1940)


German Jewish literary critic and philosopher.
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Walter Benjamin
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. [...] For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form—it may be called fleeting or eternal—is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.
Benjamin quotes
...our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
Benjamin
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.




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