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

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

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Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. – J.J. Furnas

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. – Plato

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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. – Quintus Ennius

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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. – George Santayana

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