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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

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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Translation
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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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Art
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Argument & Debate
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. – Antisthenes

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Argument & Debate

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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Argument & Debate

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. – Anacharsis

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Argument & Debate

Random Quotes

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? Its to see my dividends coming in. – John D. Rockefeller

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finance

I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured. – Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, Tried As By Fire; or, The True and the False,

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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Ridicule

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? – Shimon Peres

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Future