Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a s >>

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of t >>

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. >>

Quotations about Autobiography

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for th >>

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installme >>

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. >>

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin, Walter