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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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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Masses
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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
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In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon

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Charity

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

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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Proverbs 11.25 – Bible

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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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I have such trust complexes. Im close to, like, two people. – Taylor Momsen

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Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. – Robert Falcon Scott

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Tis money that begets money. – English Proverb

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I dont think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. – Keith Haring

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