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The Arcades Project

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Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, posted in no particular order. ////// Tweets by https://xitter.gq/t.co/hiKrwLH1BE

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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.
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