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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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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

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

The work of memory collapses time.

~ Walter Benjamin