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

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. – Walter Benjamin

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Attitude
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Call no man happy till he is dead. – Aeschylus

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Death

Dont be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, its just death. – Lena Horne

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Death

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale

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Death

The sole equality on earth is death. – Philip James Bailey

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Death

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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. – Margaret Walker

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Im completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. – George Carlin

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Death

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

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I couldnt help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasnt one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. – Julian Castro

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Dreams