Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin
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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.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
- Walter Benjamin