Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is wor >>

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, th >>

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis >>

Quotations about Memory

Of what significance are the things you can forget. >>

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory. >>

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. >>

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter