How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
Walter BenjaminLike ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
Walter BenjaminRather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.
Walter Benjamin[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap without transfiguring it. Not to mention a river dam or electric cable factory: in front of these, photography can now only say, How beautiful!
Walter Benjamin