The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
From Walter Benjamin
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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.
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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