“A 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.”
This book compiles a series of essays and personal reflections, exploring a wide range of subjects from the author's perspective. more
Walter Benjamin, born on July 15, 1892, and died on September 26, 1940, was a prominent German literary critic whose works profoundly influenced 20th-century literary criticism and cultural theory. more
“You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.”
“Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.”
“Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.”