Quote by Walter Benjamin
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. - Walter Ben

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

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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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. – Walter Benjamin

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Apathy
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In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon

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Charity

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little. – Chinese Proverb

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Charity

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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Charity

The living need charity more than the dead. – George Arnold

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When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. – Anais Nin

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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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