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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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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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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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Never find fault with the absent. – Proverb

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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. – Colley Cibber

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. – Thomas Kempis

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller

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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. – Coretta Scott King

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There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is Gods finger on mans shoulder. – Charles Morgan

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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. – Bram Stoker

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