Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. – Walter Benjamin

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. – Walter Benjamin
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. – Walter Benjamin