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Walter Benjamin Quotes about Life

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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

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 Benjamin
Life, Lying, Blow
Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.35, Harvard University Press

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

Walter Benjamin
Life, Morning, Lying
Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin
Life, Real, Advice
Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.146, Harvard University Press

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Walter Benjamin
Life, Long, House
Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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