Walter Benjamin's Quote - The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only

Quote by Walter Benjamin

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only

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

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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
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The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

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