Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
Walter Benjamin
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
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