Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. ... For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form - it may be called fleeting or eternal - is in neither case the stuff that life is made of. (Walter Benjamin)

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. ... For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form - it may be called fleeting or eternal - is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.

Walter Benjamin

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