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

The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Books
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35 – Bible

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Charity

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses. – Proverb

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Charity

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. – Ethel Percy Andrus

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Charity

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

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Charity

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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. – Herb Caen

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Immortality

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and its been something Ive been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and its something I hope to continue because its interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor. – Keanu Reeves

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Hope

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. – Leonard Cohen

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Depression

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but Im in complete charge of my own career. – Tori Amos

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Business