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 idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter BenjaminThe concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Walter BenjaminI am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.
Walter Benjamin