Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
― Walter Benjamin
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
― Walter Benjamin
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Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past — which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments.
― Walter Benjamin
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
― Walter Benjamin
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In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overpower it.
― Walter Benjamin
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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
― Frantz Fanon
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The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.
― John Berger
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The power of an ideology is not only measured by the answers it can provide but by the questions that it is able to suppress.
― Günther Anders
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The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state, but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.
― Walter Benjamin
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