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One Way Street And Other Writings
Walter Benjamin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”
“All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”
“What, in the end, makes advertisements superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon says—but the fiery pool reflecting it in the asphalt.”
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.”
“In a love affair, most seek an eternal homeland. Others, but very few, eternal voyaging. These latter are melancholics, for whom contact with mother earth is to be shunned. They seek the person who will keep far from them the homeland’s sadness. To that person, they remain faithful.”
“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
“Like a clock of life on which the seconds race, the page number hangs over the characters in a novel. Where is the reader who has not once lifted to it a fleeting, fearful glance?”
“We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected.”
“The power of a country road is different when one is walking along it from when one is flying over it by aeroplane.”
“The language of nature is comparable to a secret password that each sentry passes to the next in his own language, but the meaning of the password is the sentry’s language itself.”
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