Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place wher…

- Walter Benjamin

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

- Walter Benjamin

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

- Walter Benjamin

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

- Walter Benjamin

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

- Walter Benjamin

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

- Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

- Walter Benjamin

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

- Walter Benjamin

The work of memory collapses time.

- Walter Benjamin