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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 adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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Absence
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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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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. – Bible

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

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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. – Thomas Hobbes

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It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. – Marguerite de Valois

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