These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
"Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin" was a German philosopher and cultural critic. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, historical materialism, and Jewish mysticism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to Aesthetics/aesthetic theory and Western Marxism. He is associated with the Frankfurt School. He was also related by marriage to Germans/German political theory/political theorist Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to his cousin, Günther Anders.
Among Benjamin's major works as a literary critic are essays on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/Goethe, Franz Kafka/Kafka, Karl Kraus (writer)/Kraus, Nikolai Leskov/Leskov, Marcel Proust/Proust, Charles Baudelaire/Baudelaire, and translation theory. He also made major translations into German of the Tableaux Parisiens section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal and parts of Proust's In Search of Lost Time/À la recherche du temps perdu.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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