"Seizing the day, amidst its…" — Walter Benjamin

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Saisir le jour, au milieu de son accélération et de sa décadence

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“Translation is a form of transformation”

Walter Benjamin

“As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn ...”

“The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick.”

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