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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
~ Walter Benjamin
Construction
Convictions
Facts
Far
Life
More
Power
Present
Than
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
~ Walter Benjamin
Character
Destructive
Feeling
Life
Lives
Living
Suicide
Trouble
Worth
Worth Living
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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.
~ Walter Benjamin
Art
Art Form
Aversion
Between
Conventional
Criticism
Criticized
Decrease
Distinction
Enjoyed
Enjoyment
Form
Greater
New
Public
Sharper
Significance
Social
Truly
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
~ Walter Benjamin
A Good Thing
Beauty
Could
Good
Good Thing
Happiness
Idea
Much
Share
Thing
Too
Too Much
Would
Would-Be
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
~ Walter Benjamin
Hope
Knowing
Love
Only
Person
Them
To Love
Way
Without
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
~ Walter Benjamin
Again
Flashes
Image
Instant
Never
Only
Past
Picture
Recognized
Seen
Seized
True
True Picture
Up
Which
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
~ Walter Benjamin
Able
Aware
Be Happy
Become
Fright
Happy
Oneself
Without
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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.
~ Walter Benjamin
Built
Composed
Good
Musical
Prose
Stage
Steps
Textile
Three
Work
Woven
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
~ Walter Kerr
Advantage
Clever
Composed
Enough
Half
Idiots
Indecent
Other
People
Take
Them
World
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
~ Walter Kerr
Comedy
Like
Looks
Marx
Musical
Musical Comedy
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He had delusions of adequacy.
~ Walter Kerr
Adequacy
Delusions
Had
He
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
~ Walter Kerr
About
Air
Best
Everybody
Few
Having
Pass
Please
Relax
Sleeve
Street
Time
Tricks
Up
Would
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
~ Walter Pater
Counted
Dramatic
Finest
Given
How
Life
May
Number
Only
See
Seen
Senses
Them
Us
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
~ Walter Pater
Consciousness
Developed
Earlier
Element
General
Important
Intimate
Less
Lightly
Listens
Modern
Modern Poetry
Our
Outward
Passed
Poetry
Sense
Temper
Things
Very
Where
Which
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
~ Walter Pater
Art
Condition
Constantly
Music
Towards
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
~ Walter Pater
Ad
Age
Ardent
Art
Century
Everything
Had
Object
Pursuit
Religious
Serious
Which
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
~ Walter Pater
Art
Frankly
Give
Highest
Moments
Nothing
Pass
Proposing
Quality
You
Your
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
~ Walter Pater
Action
Bury
Calling
Experience
External
First
Flood
Forms
Objects
Ourselves
Out
Pressing
Reality
Seems
Sharp
Sight
Thousand
Us
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
~ Walter Pater
Conjecture
Each
Each One
Ever
Experience
Group
Impressions
Only
Personality
Pierced
Real
Reduced
Round
Thick
Through
Us
Voice
Wall
Way
Which
Without
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
~ Walter Pater
Art
Frankly
Give
Highest
Moments
Nothing
Pass
Proposing
Quality
Sake
Simply
Those
You
Your
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