Walter Benjamin Quotes
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
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Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
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I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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No matter how much you want to say you've got all these plans ahead. The moment is all you got.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
