The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
From Walter Benjamin
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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