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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitud

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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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin

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