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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He

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

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Deaths an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. – Ivan Turgenev

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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. – G. Gordon Liddy

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A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. – Robert Benchley

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