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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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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

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Manners
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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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Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke

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The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, which hurts and is desired. – William Shakespeare

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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. – Christopher Fry

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If you dont have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. – Scott Caan

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