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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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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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Memory
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Walter Benjamin
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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Books
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If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. – Tupac Shakur

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I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. – Laura Linney

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Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns. – Bryant H. McGill

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The fear of death comes from limited awareness. – Deepak Chopra

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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc

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I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. Its staggering. – Robert Ballard

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Theres naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. – Lord Byron

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