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“ To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. ”

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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

~ Walter Benjamin

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

~ Walter Benjamin

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

~ Walter Benjamin

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

~ Walter Benjamin