“[C]ounsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding. To seek this counsel one would first have to be able to tell the story. (Quite apart from the fact that a man is receptive to counsel only to the extent that he allows his situation to speak.) Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
— Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov,” Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (edited by Hannah Arendt and translated by Harry Zohn)
