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Walter Benjamin Quotes about Memories

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The work of memory collapses time.

The work of memory collapses time.

Walter Benjamin
Memories, Collapse

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Walter Benjamin
Memories, Passion, Borders
Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.486, Harvard University Press

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

Walter Benjamin
Memories, Mean, Past
"On the Concept of History" (1940) See Ranke 1

Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.

Walter Benjamin
Memories, Lying, Past
"Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Walter Benjamin
Memories, Book, Men
Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.483, Harvard University Press

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

Walter Benjamin
Memories, Book, Sunday
Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Rodney Livingstone (2005). “Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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