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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 idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

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Beauty
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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Death
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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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Other Quotes from
Memory
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. – Michel de Montaigne

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Memory

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Memory

Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear. – Terri Guillemets

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Memory

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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Memory

Random Quotes

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. – Nolan Bushnell

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motivational

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be. – Proverb

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Marriage

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. – George Gissing

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Be Yourself

Skydive naked from an aeroplane…. – Nikki Sixx, “Kickstart My Heart” (Mötley Crüe song)

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Skydiving