Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. – Walter Benjamin
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. – Walter Benjamin
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. – Walter Benjamin
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. – Walter Benjamin
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin