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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life

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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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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Art
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Walter Benjamin
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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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Memory
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Memory itself is an internal rumour. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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Memory

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Memory

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets. – Proverb

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Memory

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. – Edward de Bono

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Memory

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. – Michel de Montaigne

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I just wish my mouth had a backspace key. – Author Unknown

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Society is at odds with itself. – Clint Eastwood

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But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. – Marco Rubio

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