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Die Seiten der Welt

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“Sein Gesicht war so perfekt, so rein und makellos, als wäre es gemalt, erschaffen von einem begnadeten Künstler, der nie an etwas anderes gedacht hatte als an ihn. Ich betrachtete seine Lippen und zeichnete sie in Gedanken nach. Sie waren geschwungen wie die Kurven eines Herzens, wild und natürlich, so wenig künstlich wie die brechenden Wellen auf seiner Haut oder mein Lächeln auf seinem Herzen.”

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Book:Der Mond auf ihren Schultern: Meer der Kälte
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“The furious energy with which Benjamin cast about for publishing venues was underlain by an equally ambitious reading program. Several books had a profound effect on him, and some were surprises - foremost among them Thomas Mann's 1924 epic, The Magic Mountain. [...] It was not only the sweeping and intimate portrayal of the key intellectual currents of the early twentieth century that Benjamin found compelling; it was also, his letter suggests, the perception that Thomas Mann had moved beyond the Nietzschean conservatism of his early years toward a new and more dialectical, if still pessimistic and mythically charged, Dionysian humanism (something epitomized in the protagonist's divagations in the chapter 'Snow').”

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Book:Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
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“That particular fear has the texture you can neither forget nor describe. It is like the fear of the victims of an earthquake, of people who have lost faith in the stillness of the earth. And yet it is not the same. It is without analogy for it is not comparable to the fear of nature, which is the most universal of human fears, nor to the fear of violence of the state, which is the commonest of modern fears. It is the fear that comes from the knowledge that normalcy is utterly contingent, that spaces that surround one, the streets that one inhabits, can become, suddenly and without warning, as hostile as a desert in a flash flood. It is this that sets apart the thousand million people who inhabit the subcontinent from the rest of the world - not language, not food, not music - it is the special quality of loneliness that grows out of the fear of the war between oneself and one's image in the mirror.”

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Author:Amitav Ghosh
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