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“ The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious. ”

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

~ Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin Hope Love

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

~ Walter Benjamin

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

~ Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin Death Storyteller

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

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