Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin quote: “Memory is not an instrument for exploring…”
A quotation from the German critic, Walter Benjamin
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This quote is by Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German Critic
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