“...the images of my metropolitan childhood perhaps are capable, at their core, of preforming later historical experience’ .” MemoriesHistoryChildhood Book:Berlin Childhood Around 1900 Source: Berlin Childhood Around 1900
“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.” WayMeanDoeMomentsPastMemoriesDangerFlash Author:Walter Benjamin
“Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.” PastLyingMemoriesCitiesInstrumentsTheatreMediumsExploringPast Experiences Author:Walter Benjamin
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.” PassionMemoriesChaosBordersLittle ThingsChaoticCollectors Book:Selected Writings: 1927-1934 Source: Selected Writings: 1927-1934
“Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.” BookMemoriesWeekCreationSundayDay Of Rest Book:Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Source: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings
“Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.” MenBookShowsMemoriesScriptsRaysGlossBook Of LifeUltraviolet Book:Selected Writings: 1913-1926 Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926
