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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betra

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. – Walter Benjamin

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

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Beauty
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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Memory
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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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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

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Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. – Crand Briton

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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. – Joseph Addison

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The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

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Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” – Dan Rather

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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. – Marissa Mayer

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards

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strength