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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices

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

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

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Criticism

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Criticism

Never criticize a man until youve walked a mile in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

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Criticism

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. – Voltaire

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Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure. – Cathy Rigby

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Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. – Sophia Loren

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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. – Hunter S. Thompson

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