"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
-Walter Benjamin
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"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.“
-Walter Benjamin
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"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."
-Walter Benjamin
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"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
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"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
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"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."
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"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."
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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
-J. K. Rowling
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
-Anais Nin
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
-Mark Twain
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
-Jack Lemon
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
-Robert Fulghum
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
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