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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 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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Art
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Walter Benjamin
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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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

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Never find fault with the absent. – Proverb

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

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All war is deception. – Sun Tzu

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The Killing has a really great combination of qualities: Even though its very sad and deals with mourning and grief, its still exciting. Its about real people and it doesnt shy from the painful points of life. – Joel Kinnaman

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children – honored as the jewelry of God…. – Thomas De Quincey

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