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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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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Memory
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller

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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. – Johann von Goethe

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

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Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. – Eminem

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I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an Iron Chef, actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it! – Cat Cora

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)

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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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