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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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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 art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. – Walter Benjamin

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Criticism
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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I start thinking about life after death. Ive got to quit thinking about it because its very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you dont feel like you want to be alive, so I dont like to get all quiet. – David Ortiz

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Death

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. – Henry Miller

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There is a remedy for everything; it is called death. – Proverb

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The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. – Jim Rohn

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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. – Winston Churchill

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[E]very day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. – Maya Angelou

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