Extract from Walter Benjamin's correspondence

"The scruples, sometimes disturbing even to me, with which I view the plan of some sort of "collected Works" correspond to the archival precision with which I preserve and catalog everything of mine that has appeared in print. Furthermore, disregarding the economic side of being a writer, I can say that for me the few journals and small newspapers in which my work appears represent for me the anarchic structure of a private publishing house. The main objective of my promotional strategy, therefore, is to get everything I write - except some diary entries - into print at all costs and I can say that I have been successful in this - Knock on wood! - for about four or five years"