Criticism and prophecy must be the two categories that meet in the salvation of the past - Walter Benjamin

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it.