The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter BenjaminReminiscences, 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 at the moment of commemoration.
Walter BenjaminDuring long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanityโs entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well
Walter BenjaminIdeas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].
Walter Benjamin