He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.
Walter BenjaminThe crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flรขneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.
Walter BenjaminIt is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.
Walter BenjaminTo a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
Walter Benjamin