The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin.
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.”
“Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.”
“All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.”
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
“That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”