"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
-Walter Benjamin
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"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.“
-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."
-Walter Benjamin
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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 art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ernest Hemingway
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-Albert Camus
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
-Dalai Lama
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell
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