He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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 BenjaminYou could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
Walter BenjaminThe idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin