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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

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

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Quotations
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Walter Benjamin
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

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Charity
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Walter Benjamin
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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. – Anacharsis

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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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