5 Quotes by Siegfried Kracauer
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No one could honestly say that a musical makes sense.
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Es gibt eine Menge phantastischer E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Figuren unter den Angestellten vorgerückteren Alters. Irgendwo sind sie steckengeblieben und erfüllen seitdem ununterbrochen banale Funktionen, die alles andere eher als unheimlich sind.
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The photograph annihilates the person.
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A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.
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The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.
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