Walter Benjamin

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

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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories

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The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest

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There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism

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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away