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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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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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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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Translation
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. – Elizabeth Bowen

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Absence

Woman absent is woman dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Absence

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps. – American Indian Proverb

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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. – Yiddish Proverb

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My hope is that 10 years from now, after Ive been across the street at work for a while, theyll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. – John Dryden

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