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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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – 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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Divorce is probably as painful as death. – William Shatner

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? – Woody Allen

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Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. – Stanislav Grof

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Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. – Homer, Iliad

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