Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is compose >>

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed >>

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much >>

Quotations about Bores and Boredom

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. >>

Boredom: the desire for desires. >>

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, th >>

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Benjamin, Walter