| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6631 |
| QUOTATION: | Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German critic, philosopher. repr. In One-Way Street and Other Writings (1978). “Madame Ariane—Second Courtyard on the Left,” One-Way Street (1928). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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