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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

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

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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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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Translation
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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Death
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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise. – Stanislav Grof

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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 difference between art about death and actual death is that ones a celebration and the others a dull fact. – Damien Hirst

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Death

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

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Death

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