Quote by Walter Benjamin
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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

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Birth
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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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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You may count on Mexicos support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world. – Vicente Fox

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Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. – Fred Perry

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. – Patrick Henry

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Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience. – Robert Lanza

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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. – Joseph Heller

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