Modernity must stand under the sign of suicide, an act which seals a heroic will that makes no concessions to a mentality inimical toward this will. Such a suicide is not a resignation but heroic passion. It is the achievement of modernity in the realm of the passions.
—Walter Benjamin, “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire”, in Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938-1940 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), 45. (via chipclayton)
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