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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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Charity
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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Past, the
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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Birth
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. – Dave Grohl

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Death

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Death

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. – Thomas Paine

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Death

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? – Barry Goldwater

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Death

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You know, Ive never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think its a rumor. – David Carradine

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The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract. – Robert A. Heinlein

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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. – Brian Eno

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