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
   
Walter Benjamin   Name:
Walter Benjamin
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
German
Birth:
July 15, 1892
Death:
September 27, 1940
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