Quote by Walter Benjamin
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and s

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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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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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. – Walter Benjamin

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Art
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Absence
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. – Sir Matthew Hale

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. – Ouida

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Absence

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. – Elizabeth Ashley

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson

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Ive been brought up with the Christian faith with my family. – Ioan Gruffudd

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Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, theres the opportunity seeds of great success. Theyre not miles apart. So if theyre that close together, and if youre really working, youre always gonna have that likelihood that somethings not going to work. – Peter Guber

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Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. – Alexander Hamilton

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Humankind