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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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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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Walter Benjamin
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

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Quotations
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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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The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. – Hugh Mackay

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Anyone who teaches knows that you dont really experience a text until youve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. – Joyce Carol Oates

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences. – Louise L. Hay

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Experience

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. – James Russell Lowell

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There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. – Mignon McLaughlin

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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. – William Blackstone

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. – Benjamin Britten

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Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks. – Author unknown

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