Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – Walter Benjamin
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – Walter Benjamin
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. – Walter Benjamin
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin