I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.
Walter BenjaminA blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.
Walter BenjaminThe crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flรขneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.
Walter BenjaminEvery passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin