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Walter Benjamin Quotes: The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
         

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.


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The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.



Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.



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



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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.



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

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



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

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



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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

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe



All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.





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I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

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The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.

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