Quote by Walter Benjamin
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – 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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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because its how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad. – Felicity Huffman

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Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. – George Edward Moore

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Beauty is not just physical. – Halle Berry

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When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place. – Annie Lennox

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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesnt play, it has a poignancy to it. – Jim Jarmusch

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When Im online, Im alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. – Clifford Stoll

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