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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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Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Wisdom
"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
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Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Wisdom
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
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Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Hope
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
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Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Experience
"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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Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Experience
"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
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Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Death
"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."
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Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Beauty
"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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Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Attitude
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