"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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"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
-John Lennon
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"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
-Tom Bodett
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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
-Antonio Porchia
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"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."
-Gerard Way
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
-Jim Henson
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson
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