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Quotes from Main features of my first impression of hashish — Walter Benjamin

1892–1940 Germany

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You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.

Main features of my first impression of hashish (1927)

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.

Main features of my first impression of hashish (1927)

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