To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it “the way it really was” (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.
Walter Benjamin
1892–1940
· lived 48 years
n. 1892-07-15, Berlim · m. 1940-09-26, Portbou
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6A highly embroiled quarter, a network of streets that I had avoided for years, was disentangled at a single stroke when one day a person dear to me moved there. It was as if a searchlight set up at this person’s window dissected the area with pencils of light.
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