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

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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Communism
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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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My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. – John Barrymore

As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be – D. W. Brogan

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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History is a vast early warning system. – Norman Cousins

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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. – Bodhidharma

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When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond. – Arabic Proverb

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Theres evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. – Mark Rydell

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