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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far m

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin

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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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Absence
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Walter Benjamin
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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Art
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Walter Benjamin
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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon

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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in mens heads. – Fogg Brackell

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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? – Thomas Carlyle

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Measure three times before you cut once. – Proverb

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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesnt always hold. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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