“We know that in his work Proust did not describe a life as it actually was, but a life as it was remembered by the one who had lived it. And yet even this statement is imprecise and far too crude. For the important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his m…”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.comTagged: Narrative Fallacy, The Beauty of Narrative, How Memory Works, The Fiction of Living
“The Latin word textum means 'web.'”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.comTagged: Word Orgins, Understanding the Web
“The azure of the vast, vaulted sky.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.comTagged: Azure, Soothing Language, Sky Descriptions
“In relation to the history of organic life on earth,” writes a modern biologist, “the paltry fifty millennia of homo sapiens constitute something like two seconds at the close of a twenty-four-hour day. On this scale, the history of civilized mankind would fill one-fifth of the last second of the la…”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.comTagged: Time, How Time Really Is, Time As Felt Outside of Humans, Geological Time
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.comTagged: Writers, Why You Write Books
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.comTagged: Part and Parcel, All Connected, Connectionism, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences