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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ↗

— Tony Benn

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I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something. ↗

— Bill Bennett

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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. ↗

— Tony Benn

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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. ↗

— Alan Bennett

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My films are about embarrassment. ↗

— Alan Bennett

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