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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side

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

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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. – Walter Benjamin

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

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Absence
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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Art is pictures straight from the heart. – Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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