"He who observes etiquette but…" — Walter Benjamin

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“All great literature either founds a genre or dissolves one”

Walter Benjamin

“Hope is the gift offered us by memory”

“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism”

“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation”

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