Walter Benjamin Quotes About Memories
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Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
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The work of memory collapses time.
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To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
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