"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
-Walter Benjamin
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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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"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 idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
-John Keats
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
-Khalil Gibran
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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