"He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand -like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery -in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding."

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Source : "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".

Walter Benjamin

#Real Quotes #Past Quotes #Men Quotes

“I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.”
“If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.”
“She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.”
“I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.”

Source : John Joseph Griffin (1838). “Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry”, p.14
“In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.”

Source : "Fielding Questions on The Art of Fielding" by Joshua Lars Weill, www.gq.com. September 2, 2011.
“Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.”
“Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.”

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