The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist.
― 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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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
― Walter Benjamin

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Der Beruf folgt so wenig aus der Wissenschaft, dass sie ihn sogar ausschließen kann. Denn die Wissenschaft duldet ihrem Wesen nach keine Lösung von sich.
― Walter Benjamin

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A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.
― Walter Benjamin

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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
― Walter Benjamin

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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
― Walter Benjamin

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Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
― Walter Benjamin

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The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
― Walter Benjamin

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