Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – 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
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away. – Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac