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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ec

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

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin

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Facts
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Walter Benjamin
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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Past, the
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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. – William Blake

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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. – James Augustine

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Birth

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away. – Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac

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Birth

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. – Sir Thomas Browne

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Birth

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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. – Erma Bombeck

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. – William Shakespeare

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Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. – Mariska Hargitay

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