The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. – Walter Benjamin
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. – Walter Benjamin
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin
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