Quote by Walter Benjamin
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. - Walter Benjamin

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. – Pierre De Beaumarchais

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. – Anacharsis

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. – Lyman Beecher

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