"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.“
-Walter Benjamin
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"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
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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."
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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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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-Immanuel Kant
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