The Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, posted in no particular order. //////

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Hugo: 'As for me, I am conscious of the starry gulf in my soul.'

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The shadows themselves seemed luminous.

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I close the curtains on the sun. It is well and duly put to rest.

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People are weary of grandiose homicidal acts.

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Critical moment—the status quo threatens to be preserved.

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Pamphlets from 1848 are dominated by the concept of organization.

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'To dwell' as a transitive verb—as in the notion of 'indwelt spaces'; herewith an indication of the frenetic topicality concealed in habitual behavior. It has to do with fashioning a shell for ourselves.

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Research into that serious disease, hatred of the home.

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The first experiments with the guillotine were conducted using sheep.

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With the guillotine beating time.

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As life becomes more subject to administrative norms, people must learn to wait more. Games of chance free people from having to wait.

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One cannot refuse the charitable gift of a coffin.

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Courbet reports that Baudelaire looked different every day.

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They wave to the noiseless, unknown, never-returning people.

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Baudelaire does not describe.

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The theory of l'art pour l'art, in Baudelaire's formulation, seems to be a plagiarism.

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Within two years, he has spent half of it.

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Hugo: 'As for me, I am conscious of the starry gulf in my soul.'

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Fifteen years.

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To the right of the barricade; to the left of the barricade. For large portions of the middle classes, there was only a shade of difference between these positions.