Walter Benjamin Quote

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"花が太陽の方に向くように、秘められた向日性によって過去は歴史の空に昇る太陽に向かおうと努める。"

Translations

“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope”

Walter Benjamin

“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”

“Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay”

“All great literature either founds a genre or dissolves one”

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