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"Out of clutter, find simplicity."
"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"
"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
Explore more quotes by Walter Benjamin
"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."
"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."
"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."
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
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