Quotes from WALTER BENJAMIN

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.