抄書 vol.1: one-way street, walter benjamin

for men

to convince is to conquer without conception.

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imperial panorama

[...]2. a curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass.[...]

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[...]2. talk about what you have written, by all means, but do not read from it while the work is in progress. every gratification procured in this way will slacken your tempo. if this regime is followed, the growing desire to communicate will become in the end a motor for completion.[...]

[...]11. do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. you would not find the neccessary courage there.

12. stages of composition: idea---style---writing. the value of the fair copy is that in producing it you confine attention to calligraphy. the idea kills inspiratoion, style fetters the idea, writing pays off style.

13. the work is the death mask of its conception.